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Washington Apple Pi Journal, October 1985

1. 9 Hartman Michael e o 48 49 Ungerman Mike MC EC 36 MinuteWare 11 Harvey Nancy 34 Ronald 14 Operant Systems 5 Kinal George 40 Weissman Jessica 16 Paradise Systems 6 Klugewicz Chris 38 Youell Adrien G 48 75 Paragon Technologies Inc 21 Koskos Paul 24 47 Warrick Tom 4 18 70 PC Resources 65 Kroll Tom 46 Personal Computing Assn ee eee 17 Sabaki 55 Software for Kids 2 ee eee ee al Tysons Corner Center 2 eos 49 VF Associates 37 Voad 5 5 2 oN Wheaton 1 13 Woodchuck Industries Inc e o 49 80 October 1985 Washington Apple Pi Quality and E reliability you can depend on New KODAK Diskettes are certified error free They are available in the most popular formats for your PC Trust your data memories to a name that means reliability See us today for new KODAK Diskettes WASHINGTON APPLE PI LTD 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda MD 20814 FORWARDING AND ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED BULK RATE U S POSTAGE PAID PERMIT 5389 Silver Spring MD 20910 A REFURBISHED DAISY WHEEL PRINTER FOR PERSONAL COMPUTER USERS AND SMALL BUSINESSES Three In One Offer Just 598 Includes On Site Warranty A
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3. wii Maryland residents add 5 E Mac Basic Interpeter MacLion MacOne Write ea Megaflier Mighty Mac Multiplan Macpic 1 2 Pro Headline Fonts Pro Text Fonts Ready Set Go Slide Show Magician 42 Smooth Talker 2 0 ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS SPECIFY Il MAC 128 512 sales tax Shipping and handling 3 per order 4 00 for U P S ACCOUNTING LEISURE BUSINESS WORD PROCESSING AR AP PR BPI ea 260 Arcade Machine 42 Business Analyst 132 Addressbook Mail List 35 Church Management 325 Beyond Castle Wolfenstein 25 Forecast 42 Bank Street Speller Writer 49 Dollars and Sense 69 Computer Baseball 28 Management Edge 165 Format Il 102 General Accounting BPI 260 F 15 Strike Eagle 24 Sales Edge 165 Newsroom 35 Home Accountant 46 Flight Simulator II 39 Print Shop 35 Karateka 24 Print Shop Library 1 2 ea 18 verlo Conk m need Knight of Diamonds 24 UTILITY GRAPHICS Sensible Speller 85 Job Cost 390 Lode Runner 28 Alpha Plot 27 Screenwriter Il Pro 90 Time Accounting BPI 260 Mech Brigade 28 Apple Mechanic 20 Super Text Pro 40 80 56 Sargon Ill 35 Complete Graphics System 55 Tank 98 COMMUNICATIONS Six Gun Shoot Out 28 DOS Boss 17 Handler 55 Ultima 111 42 Extra K 28 SUPE MEE m 8 Fom ack cuit MSDELLANEDUS Compuserve Vidtext og Wizardry 1 35 Fontrix 1 5 65 Charles Goren Learning Bridge 55 Dow Jones Membership Kit 21 Zork 28 Graphic
4. ET WEIGHT Approx 5 Ibs Suggested Retail Price INTERFACE Washington Apple Pi 1 495 October 1985 Connects to your MAC via the modem or printer port Printer connector and integral print spooler provided on MAC I0 See retailer for details Trademarks Paradise MAC 10 Systems Inc Macintosh MAC Apple Apple Computer inc Paradise Systems Inc reserves the right to change specifications with eut notice PARADISE SY S TEM S I 61 folks were working on a desktop calculator emulating the HP12C but had beta software showing it as an AP12C in an effort not to irritate HP HP demanded the name of the developer Kawasaki asked why Because we want to insist that they put our label on the calculator MacAdvertising for HP that s great Other News and Views Reviewers In the August Review Comer I had asked for volunteer reviewers So far I have gotten only a few responses Many of you are doing reviews on your own This is great The only problem is that after much hard work your article might not get published because someone else may have turned in a review Therefore David Morganstein and I are trying to coordinate reviews to avoid such wasted effort If you want to write a review or are writing one on your own please let either of us know We are assembling a database of reviewers and products to be reviewed We encourage you to get in touch with us Living Video Tex
5. 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 OG 00 O0 CO OO CO ANUNUA U I A FO EO WWW FOTO CO PO We ih CA I SSS9S599598S9S59C 5UP SPSSORSESSUS SP A e o contd 27 HARDWARE LANGUAGE APPLE SIGNATURE BYTE for I e APPLE e 80 COL CARD Alternate character set APPLE e GAMEPORT PROBLEMS APPLE e Can II peripheral cards be transferred APPLE n Hang ups w Saturn 128k amp Integer Cards Fault when cold APPLESOFT ROM CARD ROM Changes AUDIO From A le to ae Monitor BASIS CO Cons Run Pro Dos BOOT ERROR Machine eT e uage from MONITOR CARD REMOVAL ON OR PHFFT CLOCK CARD SEC Th Time Date String to Memory CLOCK CARD PRODOS How to interface COLOR MONITORS For Word Processin ing 80 amp Graphics COMMODORE 6510 Processor vs APP DIAGNOSTICS Available Disks DISK DRIVE Disable WRITE PROTECT SWITCH 1 DISK DRIVE Disable WRITE PROTECT SWITCH DISK DRIVE flaky only in S6 of spare Why DISK DRIVE Cleaning DISK DRIVE DOOR Should it be stored open or closed DISK DRIVE Emulator Semi Disk Definition DISK DRIVE File Loading Probl ems DS DERIVE Malfunction DISE D IVE When is Cle emi ne Needed DISK DRIVE WRI WRITE PROTECT COPY Track 0 Problems EXPANSION CHASSIS for APPLE II peripherals 1 EXPANSION CHASSIS for APPLE II peripherals 2 GAME PADDLE Connections GAMEPORT Connecting 16 Pin pad
6. B33E 18 AD BF BS 8D EC B5 6D E6 B5 B348 8D E6 BS AD B5 8D ED B5 6D B332 8D E4 5 90 03 EE ES B5 The next patch corrects the catalog string files over 255 sectors sently DOS starts over again ut with this patc the correct count will be shown is is also from C AP P LE In Depth p 197 AE42 A0 02 A9 BO 48 5 44 D9 A4 AEAC AS 45 E9 00 90 1085 45 AS 44 AES6 F9 A4 B3 85 44 68 18 69 01 48 AE60 DO ES 68 20 ED FD 88 10 DB 60 following patch goes with the above to correct VOL isting ADAE A2 0C BD AE B3 20 ED FD CA DO ADBS8 F7 8645 Now with all three patches you can append and catalog large iles From WP4609 To ALL 07 25 AE File Mismatch After reinstalling my AE PRO I find that I can t save a file Instead a message shows that says FILE MISMATCH DidI install it improperly Thanks From WAP208 To WP4609 07 25 File Mismatch Usually when You to save a file to a disk and you get the dreaded FILE MISMATCH error this means there is already a file on the disk but it is not the same type as the one you are trying to save So instead of wiping out the original file and writing the new one DOS or ProDOS tells you that you already have a file of that name but a different type If you don t already have a file with the name you re trying to save then something is wrong with your AE PRO disk r the AE PRO program itself Try copying all the AE PRO files to a freshly initialized disk
7. Ed note Space limitations prevent us from running a copy of Tom s full six page report If you would like a copy send a 39 stamped self addressed business size envelope to Users Group Conference Report Washington Apple Pi 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda Maryland 20814 Representatives from 14 users groups met with employees and officials from virtually every major group within Apple on September 8 10 to discuss how Apple and users groups could work together for mutual benefit At the conclusion of the meeting the representatives made a formal presentation for future cooperation to top Apple management including John Sculley President and Chief Executive Officer and Jean Louis Gassee Vice President for Product Development The meeting was particularly noteworthy for the degree to which Apple listened to what users groups are saying The focus group The conference began with a focus group in which the users groups representatives discussed Apple Computer Inc and Apple computers in one room while Apple representatives watched and listened in another The consensus of the group was that while people had warm feelings about Apple Apple was in the process of losing goodwill because it was not responding to users needs It was agreed that Apple could benefit greatly from working with users groups because the groups by educating their members increased their satisfaction with their computers This in turn led those
8. 80 Call Shaji at 301 231 6393 days For Sale Apple compatible computer including monitor 2 disk drives Z 80 card Mountain multi function card graphic printer card detachable keyboard and a full line of software A great value at 650 or best offer Call Mike 301 933 4168 For Sale Apple software 50 90 off list WP Apple Writer education business investment spreadsheets accounting games graphics utilities and more New in packaging picked up at a going out of business auction Call Jessica at 301 439 1131 For Sale Apple e dual disk drive monitor System Saver 80 column card Super Serial card Okidata 92 printer w Grappler parallel card Microcom modem and Titan accelerator numeric key pad and some software Also Apple flat screen c monitor and stand external drive carrying case Reasonable prices Call Royal at 585 3900 For Sale Apple 300 Modem Apple Super Serial Apple Term II Access 175 Call Bill evenings at 250 6441 COMMERCIAL CLASSIFIEDS Custom programming in Pascal for the Apple Macintosh and Lisa Experience in scientific low level O and other application areas Also Macintosh Office hardware and software selection setup and support Omnis 3 database programming for the Macintosh Contact Michael Hartman Open Cluster Software 301 445 1583 d JOB MART Position Wanted Apple Macintosh computer instruction in the general Frederick MD area Inst
9. ANMARC Electronics 9 CHURCH v Asthorired MacPEGADYTE 0 1 Serving t e washington Metro area 532 2324 October 1985 63 MACADVANTAGE PART Il Using Units by Robert C Platt This column is the second in a series exploring MacAdvantage SofTech Microsystem s implementation of its Pascal p System on the Mac See Steve Hyland s review of the p System and MacAdvantage Feb 85 WAP Journal at 34 Last time Aug 85 WAP Joumal at 46 I illustrated procedure calls to the Mac s ROMs with a short program that presented the OldFileName window This column will illus trate the use of units by combining that routine with two others in a form that can be incorporated into any Pascal program The resulting unit that is listed at the end of this article will be helpful in converting Apple Pascal programs to MacAdvantage A unit is one or more procedures or functions that is compiled separately for incorporation later in other programs This feature permits programs to be developed from building blocks so that the entire program does not have to be compiled each time the different pieces are being debugged or modified Units also permit common routines to be shared between programs Units are explained at page 111 of Clark amp Koehler The UCSD Pascal Handbook They are also covered by Kevin Nealon in Chapter 1 of Perfect Pascal The sample unit at the end of this article contains three procedures for use by othe
10. ProVUE Development Corporation 222 22nd Street Huntington Beach CA 92648 OverVUE 2 0 Second more powerful relational data base offering with charts macros equations and much more Simon amp Schuster Inc 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York NY 10020 The Mac Art Dept by Tom Christopher 39 95 96 page hardcover book with 150 MacPaint Graphics on a disk Book is full of information suggestions and tips on MacPaint along with lessons in transforming and improving the Graphics supplied SMB Development Associates P O Box 3082 Chatsworth CA 91311 MacMate Print Spooler and Ramdisk written completely in machine language Topexpress Limited 13 14 Round Church Street Cambridge UK CB5 8AD MacBCPL 150 A complete programming language development system including Washington Apple Pi compiler Can be run on a 128K Mac INFORMATION RECEIVED HARDWARE Clipper Computer Accessories 400 N High St Box 170 Columbus OH 43215 Sharp Tracer 10 Plastic cover for the mouse with a 2X magnifier for tracing DataSpace Corporation 205 Riviera Drive Markham Ontario Canada L3R 2L6 DS 800 549 800K drive for the Mac MAX 549 256K print buffer for the Mac expandable to 1 Megabyte claims to reduce print time for a test MacWrite document with fancy fonts and graphics from 109 to 30 seconds Wait to buy until you read reviews for both products announced but not released General Computer Corporation Cambri
11. Explanation TRACKS Number Interleaving amp Software Protection UNDELETE Deleted File from Disk Directory 1 UNDELETE Deleted File from Disk Directory 2 WRITE ON BOTH SIDES OF A DISK Without punching hole APPLE to existing TEXT PE command APPLESOFT BASIC Instruction Softw ACE PLER EPSONRX80 ASCII codes above 127 ACE 1000 APPLEWORKS conversion PRODOS Won t BOOT TOYSTICK S Convert Atari joysticks to Apple e 1 ACH eet o roble to Apple e ZORK CYCLOPS Ki APIC INTERFACE un work without APIC G Card APPLEPLOT Use SHAPE TABLE APPLEVISION PROGRAM Text on Hi Res Screen How ram Print Plot Problems DOUBLE GRAPHMAGIC Epson RX 80 Driver H PLOT LINE w out Erasin ng Lines HI RES Page 1 Move Quickly t y Page HI RES Page 2 Mix GRAPHICS an HI RES Page Protect From pes Programs HI RES PLOT Varying darkness of vertical lines HI RES Routines Addresses 1 in Applesoft ROMs HI RES Screen Clear to a Color HI RES Screen Modify for More Text HI RES Screen Plotting Select a age 16 or Page 2 LO RES SCREEN DUMP PR LO RES SCREEN DUMP PROGRAM 2 LO RES Screen Clear to a Color LO RES Screen Color Flash on Switch from Text Mode LO RES Overlap of Propam ram amp M Page 2 Graphics MIXING TEXT AND G PLOT yc uation Input fom Keyboard PRINT AP rom APPLEWRITER via GRAPHTRIX RASTER Meng SCREEN DUMP t for Various Printers October 1985 82 03 00 90 0909
12. GRAPHICS PROGRAM Doesn t work on e 8404 2 APPLE II GRAPHICS EPSON FX 80 Won t pass some CHR s 84 07 10 APPLE H MORSE KEY PROGRAM Doesn t work on e 8404 1 APPLE 1 MOTHERBOARD REVISIONS nature 83 11 4 APPLE EXPAND with e 64K 80 col 85 05 12 APPLE DPCRADE to e where and how 8311 9 APPLE UPGRADE to e where and how 5 85 9 5 PLE TELEX I SERVICE INTERFACE 84 05 10 APPLESOFT ACCURACY Differences in Identical Numbers 04 7 APPLESOFT AMPER Use oft to access sub routines 83 11 7 APPLESOFT BACKUP DATA ER OGRAM Automatic from D1 to D2 1 8504 7 PLESO BACKUP DATA PROGRAM Automatic from D1 to D2 2 8506 1 APPLESOFT BACKUP PATA PROGRAM Automatic from D1 to D2 3 85 08 4 APPLESOFT BASIC Split Program Across Hi Res Memory Area 8109 10 APPLESOFT BLANK STRING OR NUMERIC DELIMITER 8410 6 APPLESOFT BOOLEAN LOGICAL OPERATORS Tips on Use of 8302 4 APPLESOFT BREAK From Prog Modify w o Mo UNE Variables 8105 3 APPLESOFT CHAIN Define Function ext Using 8112 6 APPLESOFT CURSOR POKE Cursor 8201 4 APPLESOFT DELETE from Disk from Within 8106 3 APPLESOFT DELETE from INTEGER APPLESOFT programs unable to 83 06 1 von 24 October 1985 Washington Apple Pi Compare C OMPUTER WARE UNLIMITED to Anyone else Speed Reader li Davidson 48 Sticky Bear ABC Numbers 28 Terrapin Logo 3 0 69 U S Geography 14 qe rime Trax ed calender E asi 2 ie clock module Judes
13. Rolodex program now called Quick File version 0 5 Few people have yet discovered the power of Paint Mover for which there is no formally released documentation Among the many things you can do with Paint Mover is to select and transfer a portion of a MacPaint document up to the entire page not just a screenful from one file to another while at the same time rotating inverting or enlarging the new version of the image Paint Mover can also enlarge a MacPaint image to poster size and Bill has incorporated into the program the ability to smooth some of the rough edges in the enlarged image It is also possible to take a dark image and lighten it up by thinning it Such power comes not without limitations Paint Mover works only on 512K Macs Bill wanted to give these programs to anyone who wanted them but he obviously couldn t make copies for everyone at the show WAP volunteered to help That night a number of us went back to Steve Hunt s 27 foot motor home parked outside the convention center and made a number of copies for other users groups The next day all of the groups made copies of the program for anyone who wanted one Excitement increased when Andy Hertzfeld made available version 4 4 of Switcher which fixed an obscure bug in version 4 3 that occurs most notably as it was explained to this writer when using the Edit program of the Macintosh 68000 Development System Steve Hunt estimates that WAP alone must have put
14. Washington Apple Pi The Journal of Washington Apple Pi Ltd Volume 7 Octobor 1985 Number 10 Apple Listens WAP Q amp A Index Custom Characters in Imagewriter MacAdvantage Using Units In This Issue Officers amp Staff Editorial 4 3 The Wordstar Starcard Package Joe England 39 President s Corner Warrick 4 Fixing Wordstar Rev 3 3 George Kinal 40 Classifieds Commercial Classifieds Job Mart 5 Custom Characters Into the IW Chester Page 42 Event Queue General Information 5 Modification to Diskcat e e Rick Chapman 45 WAP Calendar SigNeWwS 4 amp e 6 WAP Bulletin Board SYSTEMS 41 4 9 45 Minutes Apple Teas T Applg Keys LOU Knoll 46 WAP HOSTING o x 5 0 6 8 Indexers Arise Leon Raesly 46 DisabledSIG NEWS 9 AppleWorks Corner e eee eo o e Paul Koskos 47 Apple SIG News 4 amp ee 10 USUS Natl Meeting in Baltimore Michael Hartman 48 Apple Newsltrs amp Mag David Ottalini 12 Letter to the Editor Adrien Youell 48 Apple For Me Update e David Ottalini 13 PIG Library Reissues Michael Hartman 49 GAMESIG News e aw o Ronald Wartow 14 The Best of the WAP ABBS e Brian Mason 50 Chipwits for the Ap
15. would change anywhere from 30 to 128 with the OPEN APPLE key pressed or from 128 to 230 depending on the computer s whim Now this just couldn t be for a guy who was going to master his machine using Basic and then learn Logo Pilot and then MACHINE language in a year From somewhere I picked up the value of 160 for the memory locations and they worked Using this little program I proved to myself that the keys could be programmed 10 IF PEEK 49249 gt 160 THEN 200 20 IF PEEK 49250 gt 160 THEN 200 30 GOTO 10 100 PRINT OPEN APPLE PRINT PEEK 49249 PRINT TAB 10 PEEK 49250 200 PRINT CLOSED APPLE PRINT PEEK 49249 PRINT TAB 10 PEEK 49250 210 GOTO 10 This little program will not only print out the OPEN and CLOSED APPLE messages but will also give you the value of the memory locations when you do Handy huh But what good are they you say Well that depends on the 46 October 1985 person doing the programming They re great for a decision press OPEN APPLE to do this and press CLOSED APPLE to do that Or you can make function keys just like Big Blue has OPEN APPLE 1 to do this etc Maybe one day I ll submit some utilities to the club using them to automatically print some statements for writing a program PRINT CHR 4 GOTO GOSUB ON X GOTO etc Maybe one day I ll even learn machine language God bless INDEXERS ARISE by Leon H Raesly LCSW Apple Pi INDEXERS arise and be cou
16. 0 8 00 ea Plus 1 00 ea postage up to a maximum of 5 00 00 ea Non members 10 00 ea Plus 1 00 ea postage up to a maximum of 5 00 archival copies See also Volume 133 Volume 300 PIGO ATTACH E Teros Volume 42 One Key DOS Volume 143 Sports Volume 301 61 Volume 43 IAC 29 Utilities H Volume 144 IAC 27 Applesoft Prog Volume 302 PIG2 Volume 44 Utilities I Volume 145 Apple Logo Tool Kit Volume 303 PIG3 PIGO PIG2 Volume 45 Diversi Copy Volume 146 Logo Documentation 10156 304 PIG4 164 and Volume 70 Business Math Statistics Volume 147 Apple Logo Sample Prog Volume 305 PIG5 1611 are Volume 71 Music Volume 150 EDSIG1 Elem Math Volume 306 PIG6 55 5 Volume 307 PIG7 Volume 308 PIG8 Volume 310 PIG10 Volume 311 611 Volume 312 612 Volume 313 PIG13 Guerilla Guide Volume 314 PIG14 Volume 309 PIG9 M 92 Spreadsheet E Bus Recd 93 VistPlot amp VisiTrend 94 CALCULINK 100 Utilities A Volume 101 Utilities B Volume 102 Games A Volume 103 Merry Christmas Volume 104 Business A Volume 159 Recipe Files Volume 160 Utilities amp Games Volume 161 Wizard Worker Volume 162 Games E Volume 163 ee and Displays Volume 164 Games Eamon Series Volume 180 Dungeon Designer Volume 401 Master Catalog Volume 402 Utilities 1 Volume 403 Communications Volume 404 Utilities 2 Volume 405 Utilities 3 Vol
17. 255552627 s Dc hk akc La el Ve le oe aa Appleseeds is the special interest 6 7 Apple 8 Apple 10STOCKSIG 11 12 for members ase 9 111 Pascal Beginning 8PM Office 4 11 SIG and up They meet during the regular Tutor 0ff Tutorial 2 Apple meet WAP meeting Dealine for 7 30 9 00PM 7 30 PM 7 30PM Conv Alex Call DisabledSIG meets on the first Journal Art Office Center Inn 836 1696 Thursday of each month at the Chev 2 2 44 644 55 2 7117 4 lt Chase Community Center 7 00 13 14 15 Apple 17 18 19 See their news elsewhere in this issue Beginning Pascal SIG _ the education special Tutorial 3 8 00 PM interest group meets on the 4th Thurs 7 30 9 00PM Office day of the month at the office 7 30 Office ForthSIG meets the third 20 21 PI SIG 22 23 24 25 26 WAP Mtg Saturday of the month at the office 8 00 0 0516 9AM North 10 00 AM Mac Begin 7 30 PM wood H S GameSIG meets on the first Tutorial 1 Office 5164 Thursday of each month at the office 7 10PM Off Vendor Show 7 30 PM See their news elsewhere 4 this issue 27 28 29 30 31 LISA MacXL SIG meets after Ma
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20. BinHex program distributed on SigMac 9 It is written in assembly and runs very quickly and implements a new compressed format It will also process files created by earlier versions of BinHex FreeTerm 1 7 by William Bond This terminal pro gram is simple enough for almost anyone to use But it s not Short on features Features such as up to 2400 bits per second operation xmodem protocol and ASCII file transfers Inthe APL folder APL Document by Mike O Connor A special Mac Terminal document to be used with a patched version of Mac Terminal APL MacTerminal by Mike O Connor The APL terminal document combined with a copy of the MacTerminal application that has a special patch installed allows you to use the Macintosh as an APL terminal AutoDialRsre by Scott Zimmerman Contains auto dial Must be installed in MacTerminal as explained in docu 78 October 1985 mentation AutoDial Documentation In the Kermit folder CKMKEY Documentation CKMKEY distributed by Columbia University This allows you to customize the keyboard for Kermit use Kermit Documentation Kermit distributed by Columbia University is a virtual terminal and file transfer program It can send files between two microcomputers or a micro and main frame when there is a version running on both ends The documentation files are standard Columbia material Mac ized with MacWrite Kermit Bugs What a bug list already Inthe KEYPAD folde
21. Cookbook But one of the Recipes Energy Saving Devices is a refreshing find in an otherwise traditional set of calculations One s subjectivity or wishful thinking can easily override the intended objectivity of the programs by setting the inflation rate to 50 for example and that brings elements of fun to what could be a very dry program Some features I would like to have seen A method of determining given a fixed figure the interest mortgage length mortgage amount relationships For instance given I want to spend 900 in principal and interest payments what combinations of interest mortgage length and mortgage will cost me this 900 It appears that the assumption is made that one will invest the difference between a rental payment and a principal interest payment an interest bearing account There are two weaknesses with this assumption few people I know would actually do this consistently for the entire length of mortgage and over time the interest rate for the increasing amounts of money will change a savings account bearing less interest than a 10 000 certificate of deposit for five years for example I would like to have seen a choice point which would take these factors into account in the renUbuy decision Am I asking too much accountants financial planners Though there is no Recipe to calculate the rate of return on this 27 investment I find my copy of Financial Cookbook useful for quick a
22. Executive Board of Washington Apple Pi Ltd met on August 14 at 7 30 PM in the office with Tom Warrick presiding USUHS is not available for the September October and November meetings on the fourth Saturday The September meeting will be at Masur Auditorium NIH September 21 is the Future of the Pi meeting A projector for the MacSig meeting was discussed Group Purchase reported that Clinton Computer is offering a 25 discount on any Apple product to WAP members The Treasurer distributed financial statements capital in hand was about 85 000 of which the Treasurer recommended that 40 45 000 be held for emergencies The President led a discussion on possible capital expenditures amp APPLE TEAS The following members offered to host a tea as a result of volunteering at the August meeting Tea Time is here again with fall yearnings and cozy evenings by the hearth Warm up your hosts and hostesses and call for your place in an intimate Apple gathering Much can be learned by working through problems together Experts may be available to dis Consider these ZII EE ELZEIIIII IZI ZIIIZI IIZIIIIZ mDEIII I EELEmL COMPUTER DEN Ltd Don t let your APPLE take a bite Out of you We meet or beat most advertised prices for all your computer needs 30 or more off on all software for all APPLE computers including Mac ecial idata ae usnpu u cu uustuwss Itoh Color 180 CPS c RX 80
23. Exposition Virtually everything was larger than the San Francisco exposition The hall the crowds and the number of exhibitors Also there was much enthusiasm among users vendors and Apple representatives The show was well worth attending For those of you that couldn t attend a number of your fellow Apple Pi members have vowed to bring an Apple show to DC Such a show should also include the Apple line There were many new software and hardware products and the following is only a sampler Software Business The emphasis was on Mac in business although there were exciting new games Several new accounting products were demonstrated One by Layered which not only contains the standard general ledger but has an expert system that produces reports and advice on your company s financial situation Another by Future Design Software see Review Corner in the September Journal reads numbers back out loud it has a SmoothTalker module in the accounting software Yet another was a high end accounting program gallery by Micromax Systems that appeared powerful enough for any small to medium sized office In addition to accounting systems there were a desktop spell checker MacSpell by Creighton Development which appeared to be superior to Hayden Speller another desktop publisher Typographer by Microsoft and AppleTalk office electronic message software from Great Britain Express Mail These were just a few that caught m
24. Fields Q amp A column Paul s work will be printed in the next Journal and a printout of the full index from year one to now will be maintained at the Pi s library at the office Also the completed index to Bruce s Q amp A is now available to be downloaded from the Alice Allen s Journal BBS in both forms described above So join in now No experience neccessary and you don t even have to have a Modem Looks like lots of FUN and GOOD TIMES ahead for this group Give Emil a call at his number above And after the WAP Journal who knows what s next Washington Apple Pi APPLEWORKS CORNER by Paul Koskos CUSTOM PRINTER CODES Judging from the number of phone calls the Pi office gets as well as from sales figures AppleWorks continues to be a very popular program A listing of printer codes for the C ITOH PROWRITER printer follows If you have any other printer not listed in AppleWorks you can look up the corresponding codes in your manual and install it After booting AppleWorks select option 5 from the MAIN MENU Other Activities Next choose Option 7 Specify Information About your Printers Option 4 Change Printer Specifications and finally Option 5 Printer Codes While in Option 4 be sure that you have specified 1 Needs line feed after each RETURN YES 2 Accepts top of page commandis NO 3 Stop at end of each NO Next in Option 5 Printer Codes ins
25. Glass formerly Alice the Mac Software Supplement the phone book version of Inside Macintosh a brochure on how to become a certified software developer an Apple sweatshirt and a brochure on Instant Pascal this program about which little has been heard for many months is the Apple I version of MacPascal We all of course asked Guy where were our free flat panel color lap Macintoshes Sales Ellen Nold Manager of Sales Support Programs discussed Apple s dealer support programs She was aware of the problems that dealers and users groups had with each other which many on both sides of the table agreed were largely problems of perception rather than substance She was interested in hearing the groups describe their tutorials programs and said that only five to ten percent of dealers offer Such courses She suggested that a tutorial program whereby dealers provided facilities and equipment and the users groups provided teachers might be a fruitful avenue of cooperation between users groups and dealers Ellen also described AppleLink a new electronic mail and database that will soon be available to dealers Using AppleLink a customer will be able go into a dealer with any question on Apple products and expect that the dealer will be able to search through the extensive database of technical and product information to try to find the answer AppleLink also has an electronic mail capability to allow Apple and its dealers to communic
26. MEG resovable cartridge 1349 H MacLion prograsaable database for Macl e39 MacForth Level 169 Hippi Coie secures ie eere eser menn IUS OY 99 Kensington MacModea 300 4 99 Surge Pratector replaces power cord 39 CALL FOR PRICES OF ITEMS NOT LISTED Please Coapare Our Prices If you find a lower price give us a chance to beat it H H H t Feel free to call for answers to technical questions TO OROER Call Jeff Dillon at 301 434 0405 i or i Write or visit l E OPERANT SYSTEMS 7676 New Haapshire Ave Suite 312 Langley Park Hd 20783 Hd sales add 51 tax UPS shipping is available All itess carry full sanufacturer s warranties ILIXCSZIDJZJZJOIZIZIDCZZZENUTIAZEZZIDLTALZZ October 1985 51 estimated to be 200 250 From WP1333 To WAP519 07 28 DOS Patches Lee and others with large files The patches in the next two answers are from Call A P P L E In Depth About DOS They correct the bugs in DOS that will not append to files larger than 32767 bytes and also prevent large files from listing correctly when cataloged The code should be t into the monitor and then a new disk initialized The first patch corrects the append bug
27. Microsofts Excel the meetings will be in LA 4 in the Georgetown University Medical School s Preclinical Sciences Building which is the building where the last few meetings have been held but in an adjacent room There will also be activities at the tables in the hallway In November decision support systems SigMac will meet in GA 2 and GA 4 one floor above LA 4 in the Preclinical 4 October 1985 Sciences Building WAP was well represented in both the quantitative and qualitative senses of the term at the MacWorld Expo in Boston August 21 23 See the related article on this subject elsewhere in this issue One of the most utilized services WAP has to offer is the hotline for members with questions All of us have been stumped on occasion and have found the answer from someone on the hotline Periodically however we must remember that all of the hotline volunteers are just that volunteers Please respect the privacy of these invaluable people by calling only during the hours listed WAP s new Bulletin Board Operator Lee Raesly is in the process of changing over all of WAP s BBS s to the UBBS program UBBS will support separate message bases called boards in UBBS jargon each computer on which UBBS runs is called a system This process will take some time and because of the nature of the new program which although not perfect is a substantial improvement over the old one I can say it will be necessary for everyone to re
28. PIG Mike Hartman 301 445 1583 amp A Bruce Field 301 340 7038 acQ amp A Jonathan Hardis 301 330 1422 Telecomm Dave Harvey 703 527 2704 Review Coord Jim Bun a day 202 293 7170 Hardware Scott R 301 779 5714 Software Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 Disketeria Staff Jim Little 301 762 3215 Dave Weike John Malcolm Joy Aso pat Gordon poe aho D De red Edwards Andy dut Allen Shirley Weaver CP M Librarian Joe England 301 953 1949 DOS 3 3 Lib Pascal Lib John Dyer 03 538 5636 ProDOS Lib IT Tom DeMay Jr 301 779 4632 SigMac Lib Tony Anderson 005 277 0386 Group Purchases Rich Wasserstrom 703 893 7143 AEvenungs 7 00 9 30M Head Reading Lib Walt Francis O 66 5742 Apple Tea Coord Paula Benson 202 951 5294 Arrangements Leon Moore 301 946 2642 Bulletin Board Opr Lee Raesly 301 460 0754 General Counsel Jim Burger Burger amp Kena 1 day 202 293 7170 Membership Dana Schwartz 654 8060 Program John Alden 202 686 1656 Publicity Chairman Hunter Alexander 703 820 8304 Public Relations Lee Raesly 301 460 0754 School 1 Coordinators Virginia Barbara Larson 703 451 9373 Nancy Strange 703 691 1619 Mont Co MD Margie Stearns 301 657 2353 Pr Geo Co MD Conrad Fleck 301 699 8200 Tutorials George Sall 703 768 0212 Steve Stem 301 881 2543 Ted Meyer 703 960 1482 Volunteer Coord Sue Ro 703 356 9025 e Chairmen ppleseed
29. PM except where indicated uld be limited to those you have purchased Please do Telephone numbers are home phones unless otherwise specified When requests are made to return calls long distance will be collect General John Day Dave Harvey Robert Martin Accounting Packages Accountant Dec Sup Mark Pankin BPI Programs Jaxon Brown Home Accountant Leon Raesly Howardsoft Tax Leon Raesly APPLE SS Bernie Benson Apple TechNotes Lance Bell AppleWorks arl Eisen Jay Jones Balt Communications Packages and Modems Telecom 2 George Kinal 7 10 2 Anchor Mark 1 Jeremy Parker Apple Modems John Day ASCII Express Dave Harvey Marv Redd Barry Fox BIZCOMP Modem Jeremy Parker General Tom Nebiker Smartmodem Bemie Benson MDM Joe England Smartcom 1 Harmon Pritchard VisiTerm Steve Wildstrom XTALK CP M Comm Bernie Benson Computers Specific Apple c John Da Scott Ruliman LISA Mac XL John Day Don Komreich Macintosh General Steve Hunt Scott Rullman Donald Schmitt Rob Clark Chart Terry Monks Comm amp Modems Steve Hunt Concertware Skip Horvath Digitizers JoAnn Stewart File Vision Steve Hunt Hard Disk David Jamison day Helix im Berry Harvey Levine Inside Mac Jon Hardis Don Landing MacDraw Tom Berilla MacLion DBMS Mark Miani MacProject Jay Lucas MacTerminal Jon Hardis Multiplan John Boblitz Don Landing Steve Hunt Walt Francis Multiplan Chart Bob Pulgino MusicWorks Skip Horvath Sid
30. Pascal Progams The program on the new 11 includes some modifications of my own to make NewRoot more compatible a with Volition Systems Modula 2 package Unfortunately I managed to place the penultimate version of the source code l on the library master disk and it produces a compiler error i Just change all references to the VARiableVPoint in the FUNCTION FindGlobals toVersaPoint and all will be well cme y e andak wi oe we L APPLE SOFTWARE 5 OVER COST This error will be corrected shortly A few weeks ago I discovered one other PIG Library bug On PIGS the PROCEDURE DOS Read the file J DOSIOIN Text should use modulo 128 of the ordinal value of the DOS file character CH Chr Ord P FBUFP PTR O MOD 128 Most Pascal I O procedures mask the high bit of a character so not doing this usually makes no difference but problems will result with control characters and in some other situations If you have any other PIG disk bugs tol report please contact John Dyer the current PIG Librarian ALL ITEMS ADD 5 MD SALES TAX P tral BASIC to Paises Translation Software P tral is the user friendly translation software that converts Applesoft BASIC programs to Apple Pascal Translates any business scientific graphics and game software from source Translation results approach 100 Translates any sized program Large or Small Essential compile directives generated P
31. Program works with AppleWorks The Leaming Company 415 328 5410 Robot Odessey I and Magic Spells Manzanita 916 781 3880 BusinessWorks Meeahaus 619 450 1230 ReportWorks Washington Apple Pi Mindscape 312 480 7667 Coloreme The Computer Coloring Kit Monogram 213 215 0355 Dollars and Sense Roger Wagner 619 562 3221 MouseWrite Scarborough 914 332 4545 MasterType s Writer Sensible Software 313 258 5566 Bookends and Sensible Speller Street 805 684 4593 BusinessCard AlphaBits LiveWire EchoWords United Software 213 556 2211 ASCII Express Pro For really BIG news remember Apple Prices are Suggested Retail Prices Contact Linda Merrill 408 973 2042 Apple Personal Modem 0 110 and 300 1200 baud plugs into electric outlet for and Mac and Mac XL 399 cables required Hayes compatible you supply terminal program serial card required for Apple s Bell 212A Auto Everything internal speaker Apple Hard Disk 20 20 Meg for Macintosh 512K 1 499 Fits neatly under Mac footprint connects to disk drive port Imagewriter II NLQ at 45 cps top speed 250 cps 595 Color capability for Apple for Mac a super ImageWriter UniDisk 3 5 Apple 499 ProDOS only modification req d for c works with 5 25 drives Apple Memory Expansion Card 1mb no price or shipping date ColorMonitor e and 399 composite color monitor So much to tell so m
32. Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 972 4667 Leon Raesly 301 460 0754 0039 ProDOS Richard Langston 301 869 7466 951 5294 John Love 703 569 2294 Barry Fox 703 820 5206 672 1721 Printers 779 5714 General Walt Francis 202 966 5742 672 1721 Leon Ben 301 460 0754 292 9225 AJ 831 series Joe England 7 10 301 953 1949 Apple Color Plotter John Day 301 672 1721 62 908 Apple Daisy Wheel John Da 301 672 1721 779 5714 Apple Dot Matrix Joan B Dunham 585 0989 334 3265 Daisywriter 2000 Bill Etue 620 2103 850 2016 Henry Greene 363 1797 471 4610 IDS 460 Jeff Stetekluh 521 4882 262 9080 Imagewriter John Day 72 1721 536 4091 MX Jeff Dillon 434 0405 527 4072 NEC 8023 ill Mark 779 8938 262 9080 Okidata Michael Proffitt 874 2270 389 884 Dan Robrish 0 4202 2 064 Scribe Phil Leber 378 4391 299 9380 Silentype Bruce Field 340 7038 330 1422 Spreadsheets Leon Raesly x 460 07 690 101 Walt Francis 966 5742 434 325 Lotus 1 2 3 Walt Francis 966 5742 362 8123 Raymond Hobbs 490 7484 751 3332 Multiplan Terry Prudden 933 3065 330 1422 VisiCalc Walt Francis 966 5742 356 9384 Leon Raesly 460 0754 690 1010 Spreadsheet 2 0 Leon Raesly 460 0754 262 9080 agiCalc 5742 SuperCalc Ver 2 0 Leon Raesly 460 0754 379 0512 Stat Packages Mark Pankin 524 0937 536 4091 Stock Market Robert Wood 893 9591 490 7484 Time Sharing Dave Harvey 527 2704 21 ord Processors Walt Francis 966 5742 Apple Writer Dianne Lorenz 530 7881 261 4124 Leon Raesly 60 0754 759 3461
33. Software A Initializing a disk what it does 143 Kbytes of information different versions of DOS 3 2 3 3 ProDOS B Introduction to ProDOS pathnames smart run CONVERT Washington Apple Pi NEW APPLE PRODUCT RELEASES A Brief Note by Adrien Youell A package from Apple Inc mailed to Tom Warrick and postmarked September 16 85 contains exciting paperwork so exciting that Bernie has held the deadline for me to abstract some aspects extremely briefly This package of releases has been mailed to all dealers We hope that some of these new products will be demonstrated at the October 26th meeting they are for Apple and Mac For Apple the 3 5 drive has spawned a barrage of releases and I can only list House and product names the enhanced e new ROM chips and 65 02 new character set are implied Some also support the Apple Memory Expansion Card 1 mb Contact telelephone numbers are for the principals given in the release which are unnamed here Meca 203 222 1000 Managing Your Money Baudville 616 957 3036 Take 1 Blazing Paddles Prince Br derbund 415 479 1170 Dazzle Draw and Fantavision Sorcim 408 942 1727 Enhanced Supercalc 3a with Sideways print program MouseSeries 408 292 2944 Mouse Calc Mouse Word for ImageWriter II color monitor and Apple Personal Modem more below Intuit 415 322 0573 Quicken for AppleWorks Pinpoint 415 530 1729 Desktop Accessory
34. There are a few more tips to complete the story of fonts which I d like to accomplish in this month s column Most MacNovices are probably using Mac systems with the single internal disk drive and probably using the 128K Macintosh If you re in that boat and you ve been working with your fonts along with this column you ve probably already bumped into the small memory and disk swap nuisances caused by the fact that fonts use up so much space For instance if you re trying to use a MacWrite disk with some fancy fonts for a writing project or more likely if you re trying to work with MacPaint and some large size fonts on a single disk drive system you ve certainly run into that message from your Mac which says This disk is almost full Or your wrists have been worn out swapping disks while the Mac copies fonts into and out of its 128K memory Unfortunately these are problems which won t be com pletely solved until you decide to add the extra disk drive or upgrade to a 512K Mac But here s a little procedure which can minimize the hassle When you want to add new fonts to the System File on a Write or Paint disk you can save lots of disk swaps if you avoid copying the entire fat Fonts file onto that disk for the operation Instead separate the fonts by title by size or by Some other convenient grouping so that you only need to copy a much smaller Fonts file Heres how to break up that fat fonts file into smaller one
35. WordsSar WS and confirm that shift P shift N and shift M hooray work properly 5 POSTSCRIPT I hope the editors let me make a few public comments here giving my opinions about this problem First of all WordStar for the Apple has been on the market for quite a few years and certainly MicroPro should understand the Apple keyboard No respondent to my ABBS inquiries indicated that MicroPro ever issued a recall or upgrade notice to registered owners Indeed to date I have not received a reply to my letter to MicroPro Certainly I must not be the first to have discovered this problem nor the first to contact MicroPro about it It seems that this consumer be damned attitude is becoming ever Washington Apple Pi more prevalent in the software business It used to be that a good argument for buying software through legitimate channels was that you were getting product support What pray tell is MicroPro offering to the customer for the 200 to 500 that WordStar is usually sold for Shouldn t legitimate purchasers be rewarded by decent product support rather than be punished by perpetuation of a deficient product Note After this article was written I received a letter from MicroPro stating I am sorry that you were inconvenienced by the left bracket problem with WordStar running on an Apple with the StarCard MicroPro has been aware of the problem for some time Initially we had a paper patch but a later revis
36. XLisa aspect uses U Pas2 FilePack Code FilePack Procedure InitCursor external 22448 ratio problem var A I don t know what Apple s up to lately but Al Hatch s 81255 recommends BitFixer from All Star Computer Services 760 integer Dolores Street San Francisco 94110 415 282 0540 ch char QUICKIES If you get a sad Mac with OFOOOD under it Test of OldFileName whenever you power up your Mac check to see that the InitCursor Programmer s switch on the side isn t stuck in the pressed OldFileName s position Mac Sidekick the application requires an extra For it 1 to 10 do cost telephone dialer Borland is working on a revision to Writeln s allow your Hayes modem to dial instead New Hyperdrive Writeln Press a key to continue software allows for automatic print spooling with the 20 Meg Read ch drive the 10 Meg will get it later both work on the Imagewriter only not the LaserWriter Do not use the Writeln Test of NewFileName Finder s Set Startup feature with the Hyperdrive Use the NewFileName This is the prompt EditMe s Manager s Preferences feature instead MacBottom s print Writeln s end Test Washington Apple Pi October 1985 57 By Fantastic Fonts 3 If you ve been following the font fandango over the past few months you should have discovered by now the fun and flexibility of changing typestyles by using the Mac s fonts
37. a hard disk This is a confirmed cause of damage to the circuits on at least one model of hard disk Fontastic comes recommended as a fine Font Editor Beware of glitches when using MacTracks As usual thanks to the people on CIS MAUG for providing information used in the column MacAdvantage contd from pg 66 WindowRecord record device integer portBits record baseAddr MacPtr rowBytes integer bounds Rect end portRect Rect TheRest packed array 1 68 of integer end WindowPtr MacPtr RectPtr integer2 var ptr WindowPtr wr WindowRecord Procedure Moveto h v integer external 22381 A893 Procedure EraseRect RectPtr external 22365 A8A3 Function FrontWindow WindowPtr external 22236 A924 begin Moveto 0 16 home the writeln cursor ptr FrontWindow absmove ptr locate wr sizeof wr move the window into Pascal s memory variables applications Why EraseRect locate wr portRect A That feature is only honored by the Finder To really erase the content region of the window protect a file you have to slide the disk write protect tab end PageClr and perhaps make a backup copy of it no initialization code end Unit FilePack Q What happened to the XLisa Workshop C Listing 2 A It s available now for 195 from Apple Computer Inc Program Test 467 Saratoga Avenue Suite 621 San Jose CA 95129 Q What is the current status of the
38. about NW A s error handling On several occasions I was caught in a loop and had no way short of stopping the program to exit One problem occurred when NWA could not find a program which in fact was there to jump to Another surfaced when I gave it a data file name which did not exist I had loaded one of its two diskettes onto a hard disk and left the other in the disk drive NWA kept giving the message that it could not find the program on any volume even though the micro diskette containing the program was in the micro diskette drive In both cases there was no way of escaping back to the previous step and my only recourse was to break out of the program The major reason for considering NWA over other more Mac ish programs would be your need to perform analyses which are not available elsewhere Among the most commonly used of these would be stepwise regression time series analyses or the computation of probabilities for specified distributions Northwest Analytical Inc 520 NW Davis Portland OR 97209 503 224 7727 Price about 275 00 Mouse Calc Apple owners with 128K and an 80 column display can now Mouse around on spreadsheets just like those using the computer for the rest of us If your Apple is not equipped with a Mouse you will need to use a different package Imported from France MC offers a 254 rows by 63 columns spreadsheet and an integrated graphics package which can display bar and line charts Seve
39. almost 400 copies of these three programs in the hands of people at the show To Bill and Andy thanks Many WAP members and at least one non member helped out at the WAP booth at the Expo To all of you we say thank you Particular mention should be made of the people who worked a half day or more Bill Brucato Dick and Nancy Byrd Steve Hunt Allen Knapp Ann and John Loikow Rochelle Stern Tony Taylor Bernie Urban and 0 October 1985 Shirley Weaver If you worked a half day or more and did not get mentioned please let me know at 656 4389 we have a little something for you In addition Jim Burger prowled the floor with media kits pointing out to potential advertisers the benefits of advertising in the Washington Apple Pi Journal The next MacWorld Expo is currently scheduled for San Francisco on January 16 18 1986 and WAP plans to attend The first planning meeting was held on Thursday September 12 and it was agreed to try to be a bit more ambitious this time and to show off both WAP and the Washington area as places where exciting things happen in the Apple computer world If you are interested in going particularly if you would like to share in some of the fun and excitement of the WAP booth please call Steve Hunt at 262 9080 There is talk about getting discount air fares if we book as a group in advance Even if you are not going to attend you can be of service to the group if you have a portable color video camera
40. and Development liked the idea of a Users Group Advisory Council and said that he considered this as its first meeting He encouraged groups to seek out speakers from Apple s regional offices where he said valuable people were to be found In contrast to the restraint of the two Mikes Debi Coleman was rarin to go to work right away to implement each of the five recommendations My pen could not keep up with her enthusiasm the key words she used were I believe Absolutely and Do it Jean Louis Gassee Vice President for Product Development said that he was a strong supporter of users groups having set up Le Club Apple in France See Jim Burger s review of Le Club in the September 1985 Washing ton Apple Pi Journal page 60 He also expressed admiration for the moderation and restraint of the recommendations and said that we had his vote Legal After the presentations three of us representatives from A P P L E Co op International Apple Core and WAP met with representatives of Apple s legal department to explore whether users groups could license DOS 3 3 and the Software Supplement for distribution their members I agreed to draft a letter outlining how such a proposal could be handled consistent with Apple s other objectives When we returned to the informal luncheon Apple had arranged following the presentation of the groups recommendations several Apple people we had met before were in attendance To everyone s surpri
41. and see if that solves the problem From WP3195 To ALL 07 3 Flaky Duo Disk Drive A little while there were several msgs re flaky Duo Drives One of the last msgs on subject I think pave the ident of the bad chip Could someone repost the chip number From WAP582 ALL 08 01 Bad Duo Disk Chip The ary cue on the DuoDisk is the 3141 ver 318 or 310 If you think you have a bad one you might check with Clinton Computer because they replaced a bunch of them for Mont County schools and probably have them in stock I don t know the chip coordinates but I believe it is the 2nd chip from the front of drive in right most row Chuck From WP2754 To ALL 07 31 e gt LaserWriter Has anyone ever done this I have a Laserwriter hooked up to my Mac and I d love to use it on my e The connection looks M enough but 59 ee any specin software 10 run it written in Postscript at progs if any support the Laserwriter lt gt Marcoc gt lt gt WE2184 lt gt 52 October 1985 From WAPS82 To ALL 08 01 e amp LaserWriter The serial port on Laserwriter emulates a Diablo 630 daisywheel printer This printer is supported by most word processors I have never hooked one to a e but I think all you need is a serial card that supports X ON X OFF hand shaking I don t know if there is Way to support graphics from the Laserwniter serial port Chuc From WP3797 To ALL 08 02 e amp LaserWriter Don Lancaster has
42. application when you first log on and wait about 24 hours or so for me to validate the password which the system will assign you The system is in operation 24 hours a day at 300 1200 baud 2400 baud coming and employs a data format of 8 bit word length no parity and 1 stop bit The boards which you will see represent months of work and are continually evolving I have managed to cut back some lately on the time I spend working on the system simply out of desire to let my family see what I look like again and out of necessity to trim the grass low enough that friends can still find the two story house I live in This article was never intended to be an in depth description of the operation use of a BBS I hope that it has provided those of you unfamiliar with BBS usage with an idea of the wealth and variety of BBS s available and that it will stir you to acquire a modem and get online with the leading edge I also hope that those of you who use BBS s will be inclined to pay mine a friendly visit sometime amp October 1985 33 LAP COMPUTER TO APPLE COMMUNICATIONS Featuring Model 100 Reported by Nancy Harvey June 15 Workshop sponsored by WAP Telecommunica tions SIG conducted by George Kinal and Dave Harvey Before you begin 1 Check files you plan to transfer If any of them are not text files they will have to be converted to a text file before they can be sent or received with Model 100 communications See C below for
43. as to their use and encourage them to join Pi if they haven t If you are a MAC ED er an ED MAC r pene respond on the BBS or call 544 3441 evenings Pat y Try MATH BLASTER by Davidson SPELLER BEE by FirstByte VOCABULARY ADVE by Queue ATLAS by Concepts Computerized MIND OVER MAC and MAC E by Think Educational From WP6223 to WP7034 07 29 R 2 EDMAC Well I have two kids 4 75 and 9 25 both going on 21 or so and I m penerali interested although I fee no COMPUL SION to buy Also I know of someone who is trying to et good educational s w to interested families Although she is focussing on the II family I thought I d pass on anything I learned Andy Gallant From WP3181 to WP6223 08 02 Kids Andy do I understand you to of your kids is version 4 75 and the other is version 9 25 Do you know what the most current version is Bob M From WP6223 to WP3181 08 04 Kids Actually organic units are in a process of continuing upgrades let s be epum so I attempted a discrete Appro rimanan to a continuous if not catastrophic process Additionally I was tracking the temporal scale in this frame of reference observation indicates wide Varum on in interpretation as in 4 not 24 More later or ma E Other important DOS commands LOAD RUN LOCK UNLOCK DELETE BRUN F Making copies of disks using the ProDOS formatter DOS COPYA what are copy protected disks Session 2 How To Use Your Apple
44. builders Hardware As if 10 megabytes weren t enough General Computer showed their 20 megabyte Hyperdrive speedy access to that much storage But at a list of nearly 3 000 a little expensive Paradise was showing its new 10 megabyte sider for the Mac One of my least favorite attributes of my favorite computer is waiting while the Mac prints a high resolution document My second least favorite is waiting for the desktop to rebuild which either a hyperdrive or good organization and the minifinder nearly eliminate Several devices including the MacCharlie claim to have spooling of a sort But Mac s print driver spends a lot of time writing to the disk or so the techies tell me therefore a simple RAM spooler will not give you much help in high resolution although it does in draft DataSpace Corporation had a prototype of a device which they claim will cut high resolution printing by up to one third I hope that claim turns out to be true Speaking of MacCharlie it got a lot of attention Their booth was one of the best Ethel Barborka Communications Manager was kind enough to arrange a demonstration and an interview with Dayna Communications President Bill Sadler We will have a product evaluation hopefully in the next Journal Sadler s observations were very interesting It was like They laughed when we sat down at the piano But now they take us seriously MacCharlie is just coming into its own At Spring Comdex it rec
45. computer You can move files back and forth but cannot run IBM s S remotely You can however play with Sym phony s files John V WP4893 From WP1755 To ALL 08 17 Remote Use of IBM Whoever sent the request about dialing in and using the host IBM PC Microstuff makes a program called Remote that allows you to do that It is like you were there at the keyboard From WP4422 To ALL 08 18 Dollars amp Sense I m throwing in the towel on this software It has a nasty habit of MN me mysterious little messages like Error 64 See Manual when there s no reference in the manual to error codes and then nonchalantly informs me that my data disk which contains the last 11 months worth of data is probably destroyed A further neat device is that the errors which apparently cause this to crash are duplicated on the back up disk without warning I used to think this was a hardware ith my disk drives because the program is in ascal and sensitive to weird drives But this has happened too often now Has anyone else had problems with this program Mike From WP4795 To WP4422 08 19 amp Cents Don t R My experience with Dollars amp Sense goes back over a fan 84 amp 85 I had an almost identical thing happen had the program appear to trash a disk then program would not oot and gave me a error I called and took my drives in thought it was the Duodisk drive and the repair people
46. for or all of the series They are designed for the beginner and will be repeated monthly A revised outline of the tutorials is given thi issue of the WAP Journal October 1 WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF APPLE November 5 October 8 HOW TO USE YOUR APPLE SOFTWARE November 12 October 15 POPULAR APPLICATIONS FOR YOUR APPLE November 19 The fee for each tutorial is 10 00 with an Apple monitor and disk drive 15 00 without monitors available for lst 5 registrants cal office Please note that WAP does not have equipment for you to use if you do not bring your own you will have to look over someone s shoulder Tutorials at 10 00 with equipment __ Tutorials at 15 00 without equipment SigMac 15 sponsoring a series of two monthly tutorials for the beginner The fee for two tutorials 15 20 00 They will be held at the office from 7 10 PM on Monday evenings Monday October 21 and 28 Monday November 18 and 25 The following non regular Apple tutorials are being offered on Saturdays from 9 00 AM 12 Noon at the office Attendees of the November 16 tutorial should bring their Apples monitor disk drive and suggested program disks Monitors are available for the first five registrants Call office October 19 Hardware Enhancements for the Apple family Scott Rullman 00 NOT BRING YOUR COMPUTER 15 member 20 non member November 16 AppleWorks Enhancements say Jo
47. for a subscription but has not been published for some time However in its latest mailing there are indications some changes are on the way For one thing the company has moved to larger quarters And there are assurances to On Three subscribers that a new edition will be out shortly A call by me to On Three in early September provided additional assurance that the magazine would again be published at the 40 00 per 12 issue price Early October is the current target date for a new edition See the listing below for On Three s new address On Three also offers software and hardware including a 512K upgrade kit and in its latest brochure late August there are two new games listed One is called The Apple Fruit Machine for you slot machine fans and a Card Machine that will play you a game of blackjack If you would like to get any back issues of On Three by the way you can for only 5 00 for each of the six issues I feel they are worth the money although most tend to be filled with rather long ads for all those products being offered a sore point with many ers But there are some excellent articles too so give them a try I should also mention that there are a number of users groups around the country that publish their own newsletters a monthly basis Some are available in the WAP office for you to read Among them The Third Apple Users Group TAU based in Wheaton Illinois says its newsletter contd on pg
48. for myself Even though I really did have a legitimate business use for it I mean every minister needs a word processor for sermons and all doesn t he Even though I didn t have a church of my own yet as my wife was all too willing to point out Aaah she just didn t understand Needless to say selfishness and greed won out Actually contd on pg 72 Washington Apple Pi The Maret MacCorner is now offering a multi megabyte RAM board for the macintosh The new MassTech 1 to 2 Meg board Instaled amp tested in less than 30 min this upgrade gives you up to 2 megs of Linear Memory The daughter board clamps to the 68000 without modifying the Mac s motherboard and thus does not void the Apple Warranty This board will be able to work with the new ROMs as well You get power enough to take true advantage of SW like Overvue Jazz MacDraft or run up to elght programs in the Switcher 512k min programs like Ready Set Go 2 0 Excel MacCAD etc Even space for effective Printer Spooling and Memory Cache The possibilities are limitless Also included are special SW for optional gt 1Meg RAM Disks and an LC cooling fan instalation and testing are free Call for prices note 512k RAM in motherboard is separate and required MessTesh 1 2 Meg Boarde Avali Immodinetly Also available at MacCORNER is our 512K 20 Min Board Swap tt brings now anew 90 day Labor amp 1 yr parts warranty and is also guaranteed to work with the u
49. me extra and random cursor blocks on the screen at the left margin The company said they were working on a solution but could offer no fix at that time Does your cursor stall then restart by itself If that is the case it may be the software holding up for the sending computer or its software provided the cursor restarts In any case you may want to consider getting a better terminal program ASCII EX in PRODOS gets my vote that will work with the MM e If you want any further information of ASCII EX give me call Bob Wood WP479S From WP2513 To ALL 07 26 Northeastern Software Now for the other side of the coin a company that did good for once Northeastem Software ads in A have great service and large inventory I ordered Softerm e from them last Saturday amp received it in the mail on the next Thursday 45 off retail too Give em a ring on their 800 sometime Chris Schanzle From WP3544 To ALL 07 28 Best Buys Msg 171 recommending Northeast Software for best buys provides type of information we should be sharing on a continuing basis on this board in the Pi and at monthly meetings Along same line is Frederick Computer sale price of 1310 best buy for e system 128K duo drives monitor Meana mig let s have more info on where to get the most for east From WAP713 To WP3544 07 29 No It Isn t Eli I kinda doubt that 1310 is the best price for a e rederick is reasonably priced but I think that if
50. of EXCEL last night at a chaotic CAPMAC meeting I haven t been this excited about a piece of software since MS WORD It s really very impressive 256 cols b 16 0004 rows Uses Rum coding Compatable wi IBM PC Lotus 1 2 3 and IBM PC same Very fast etc It will blow away Jazz and other integrated software I have seen If you do not have an upgrade option I recom mend that you seriously consider trying to get a WAP group purchase of Excel It will be the standard in my opinion for spreadsheet stuff Has macros and Chart integration From WP5099 to WP4985 07 05 Excel Im looking forward to Excel too Jazz is a BIG disappointment In particular I m still recovering from the realization that Jazz doesn t support 2 way transfer with 1 2 3 I can t believe it I can t be the only person around with Mac at home and a PC at the office Excel like most Microsoft products appears well V god integrates with PC like versions of materials via Sylk an DIP transfers It can contain much more data than Jazz an because it is a more limited function piece of integrate software A eie denis Graphs can be more efficient When used with Switcher WORD and Red Ryder Excel will exceed Jazz in all ways 07 08 DOTP Apparently all or most of us agree that Dreams of the Phoenix produces some nifty disks and that they are not too sharp in 1 not having an 800 number and 2 not having a number of outle
51. of automated financial what if s i i has 32 separate financial calculations Recipes from Understanding your Marginal Tax Rate to showing you how your money will grow in IRA and in savings accounts to finding how long your money will last at stated rates when you withdraw from those accounts to whether you should buy or rent a car or house It can be used with a 128K one disk drive system and an operational mouse is required The documentation is generally clear and complete but the author does provide a slightly muddy explanation of how to calculate your marginal tax rates Examples would have helped visualize this calculation More technical explanations are in the back of the booklet to satisfy the mathematically inclined A Financial Profile option allows you to set figures inflation rate for example which automatically show as the default figures in the 32 Recipes These figures can be changed within the Recipes to provide as many what if situations as your mind can configure Each Recipe requires you to provide specific figures when you click on Com pute and a second screen appears with the results of your calculations You can SAVE either or both screens If you want to compare a series of what if s you must manually change the desired parameters conduct another Compute and set the two result screens side by side Alternatively you could SAVE each what if and then print them out later Is It My Turn Ye
52. pace is your chief concern you might get e setup for less For example armony Video cf New York Times has e amp 1 drive for 750 2nd drive from VF Assoc for 150 Ramworks card from VF or elsewhere 4150 and monitors vary 70 150 Good luck Sam WAP713 From WP5994 To ALL 07 28 Best Buys Two more good sources for cheap software very fast service are Silicon Express in Columbus Ohio at 800 228 0755 has slightly lower prices on some items than Northeastern and Software Discounters of America in Wildwood PA 800 223 7784 has some items not available from the other two places Glen From WP5963 To WP5994 07 29 Good Buys Have to agree with Msg 179 S endorsement of Operant Systems It s local Langley Park MD reasonable and best ol all run by someone whos reputable Don Kline WP5963 30 October 1985 From WP3274 To ALL 07 31 Great Dealers Re the subject of great dealers let me highly recommend Programs Plus of Stratford Conn They have low prices fast delivery wide selection and good support They re the main competitor of the aforementioned Northeast Software fame town And my own opinion is that Programs Plus has a slight edge Walt Mossberg From WAP029 To ALL 08 04 Great Dealers I had a somewhat different experience with Programs Plus of Stratford Conn I called and ordered a Thunderscan and they told me it would be shipped the next day Two weeks later the charge appeared on my credit card b
53. programs is now connected by a menu system In the CP M version you had to determine which program you wanted and then run it If you have a hard disk moving the programs onto it will make use of the many NWA programs smoother NWA performs more operations and computes more statistics than any other package I have seen for the Mac Besides simple descriptive statistics multiple regres sion up to three way analyses of variance multi way contingency tables and non parametrics NWA computes probabilities for a host of distributions and can be used to conduct time series analyses Also it can perform a step wise multiple regression The time series functions include de seasonalizing data lag and lead transformations auto and cross correlations and fourier analysis Practically all of the analyses read the data from disk eliminating any ceiling on the number of cases it can process Unfortunately MS BASIC runs slowly on the Mac and its input output is even worse Thus working with a large number of cases can be time consuming To use NWA you must enter data into a file using either the NWA file edit utility or a separate text processor such as Apple s MacWrite or Edit programs Most of the statistical routines do not directly accept keyboard entry of data I recommend using MacWrite since I found edit utility to be difficult to use and much like line editors found on personal computers several years ago NWA on the Mac is unfortu
54. protected 149 95 Cortwane inc 985 University Ave Suite 12 Los Gatos CA 95030 408 395 3190 A fun collection of realistic digitally recorded sounds Play sounds directly on the Macintosh keyboard or create multi track se quences Use regular Mac intosh speaker external speaker or any home hi fi for great sounds Modify and mix sounds using sound processors such as echo and reverb Use sounds in your own pro grams Includes snare and bass drums toms cym bals hihats cowbell claps shaker block thun der wind sirens etc or contact Hippopotamus California residents add local sales tax Please Include 3 00 for shipping Allow 1 2 weeks for delivery Macintosh is trademark of Appie Computer lnc Hippo Computer Almanac Hippo Jokes Quotes of Hippopotamus Software Inc UNIX a trademark of Beil Labs Price avallability and specifications subject to change without notice Washington Apple Pi October 1985 and Higpo Sound Studio 1 are trademarks the Bomb Dialog explained A Both Macintosh Revealed both volumes now at Crown Books and Inside Macintosh have tables of what the codes stand for However unless you are familiar with how the application was programmed they likely won t mean much to you For example a bad bug in MacinTalk causes a divide by zero error Knowing the error code stands for that doesn t help you Additionally some applications add their own unique and un
55. system to hang up MDM740 also give similar results Desperately need help From WAPS580 To WP2851 08 20 Printing AEPRO Your problem could be caused by what printer card you have Are you running a printer driver and specified such in the install Program of AEPRO would also change your terminal escape key from Ctrl Q to something else like ESC Cul Q might be reacting with the 80 col card From WP3797 To WP2851 08 20 Super Serial AE PRO I suspect that you do not have the dip switches set Ed on your SSC Specifically the one to inable interrupts SWZ 6 should be on This allows the program to gather incoming data while waiting for the printer I assume the printer is online not deselected and works otherwise Tom Vier PS hangs machine not phone line right From WP5139 To WP2851 08 22 Modem Problem Try looking at the parameters for your installation Also using the printer with the modem set at 300 vice 1200 have same set up but with and have found that it is easiest for me to simply save data in buffer O R and then print out off line Hope this helps you Jack Mortimer bai 2 s s MN Ree ers Witla Cale ews Rade October 1985 53 MAC Q amp A by Jonathan E Hardis Q C mon now when will the Switcher actually be available to us A Its available now on SigMac disk 25 This is version 4 4 which will be the release version But by jumping the gun a bit the SigMa
56. the Mac does about all the true multitasking now it s going to do in the near term And make no mistake about it the Mac does do multi tasking now Any program can spawn a vertical interval retrace task which is the Mac s way of doing time sharing These tasks each get the opportunity to run each 1 60 of a second unless one hogs the machine for more time than that Besides standard functions that monitor the cursor and disk insertion a VIR task that may be familiar to you is the crawling ladybug installed by the System Bugs Desk Accessory on SigMac disk 5 Desk Accessories themselves are also a form of multi tasking They are specialized Device Drivers which form another class of multitasking Sidekick consists of a central application and DAs which work well together Some are Don Brown s Mock series which you ve seen before This is the basis for Borland s claim Andy Hertzfield has expressed interest in writing a version of Switcher which will do a better job of timesharing multiple applications But really most applications require continuous contact with the user as they run How could you substitute for that Q Even though I checked the Locked box in the Finder s GetInfo window for a file I found I could still overwrite and delete the file from within spooler won t work with the older style Imagewriter cable Under no condition at no time should you install or use a two way switch on an output port to
57. the Macintosh version of the game The Mac translation is pretty well done especially in the sense that it s possible to do almost everything in the game from fighting to buying foodstuffs exclusively with the mouse Playing Ultima on the Macintosh does introduce a couple of odd irritants however and at least one nifty way to cheat The first irritant there is no normal Quit command To exit the program you have to turn the power off or push the Reset button on your machine I found this to be disturb ing and difficult to understand Perhaps the game designers did not wish the player to discover the existence of files li e October 1985 15 Ultima Party which is used to store things like the attributes and current level of health of one s game char acters In which case see below Irritant two there is something quirky about the pro cedure for selecting common game commands with the mouse Unless the pointer is positioned with great care and in my experience sometimes not even then a selected com mand will not register with the program This is a great inconvenience in the heat of a battle with large angry beasts Now for a suggestion which is worth at least half the price of the program to a Macintosh owner First you need to use a utility like MacTools to change the file called Ultima Party from invisible to visible Then when you play the game run it under the Apple program called the Switcher This allow
58. the user See Inside Macintosh Packages section for unit name greater details For example the Pascal statement interface NewFileName Open Which File Myfile s would declarations known to your programs produce the following screen window Procedure A Procedure B implementation Open Which File declarations hidden from your programs Procedure A begin end A Procedure B begin 64 October 1985 Washington Apple Pi cedure body for NewFileName is very similar to OldFileName presented last time The location of the window 100 dots down and 100 dots to the right is placed in corner NilPtr is set to O to inidicate that it does not point to any window customizing Procedure and the result flag good is cleared to 0 SFPutFile calls the ROMs with the secret code number of 1 to display the Save As window Finally the name of the file is retrieved from the Reply record variable r Erasing the screen The third procedure in unit FilePack is called PageClr PageClr selects the front most window which is usually the default window for WriteLn messages erases it and homes the cursor so that the next WriteLn message will appear at the upper left corner Because PageCir makes use of the QuickDraw ROM routines even more data types must be defined Of course you could save the typing time by placing a uses U 2 Mac Interface MacCore QDTypes MacData QuickDraw MoveTo EraseRec WindowM gr FrontWindow at the start of your
59. to offer your services and or to vote I will remain in the role of secretary unless someone comes up with a better idea Dave by the way has been very busy working on an index of all written Apple articles which will be available on diskette He also sent a survey to all known Apple groups around the country to get a feel about how well they are doing Al Lambert continues to beg for software contributions for our own product line Remember EVEN IF THERE ARE A FEW BUGS we don t mind I know we have closet hackers out there We have some software but it looks shabby compared to other types of computer software available in the Disketeria We are also trying to solve the problem of having no Apple machine at the Apple Pi Office Bill Rosenmund is working on a source to donate one machine to the office That way it will be there for testing and copying diskettes There are several Apple books at the Apple Pi Office Library One I m sure is the 75 service manual for Apple lli Other informative data such as the Apple Resource Guide is also in the library I ve suggested that we change the meeting night from the second Thursday of every month to the first Thursday This will give me more of a break to get news of the meeting to the press without the editors waiting for me to get my column to them with the press deadline long past It s well appreciated but shouldn t be the usual way I was unable to do all the coor
60. to have your own copy Koffman Elliot B Pascal A Problem Solving Approach Addison Wesley Original Edition 1982 Ralph has used this himself and feels its the best introduction for Pascal programmers It may be available in later editions or no longer available Perhaps someone can check this out and report findings at the tutorial I realize that you do not get your newsletters until some time into the month perhaps after our meeting There are a couple of ways to beat the system You can elect to pay first class postage with your annual subscription or you can drive to the monthly general meeting which is the fourth Saturday of the month and pick up your copy before the meeting starts It isn t necessary to stay for the meeting to obtain your newsletter Bart Cable has a copy of Multiplan available for sale If interested call 360 1876 between 7 and 9 PM Washington Apple Pi 3201 MURCHISON WAY CARMICHAEL CA 95608 52504 can t over emphasize the importance of protection against static electricity Winter is soon approaching and the cool air and heated rooms seem to make static problems more visible Learn how to avoid getting shocks when touching your equip ment Static electricity can damage software as well as hard ware Mats and furniture are available that work well or you can touch something else that will discharge the buildup of static in your fingers before you put your hands on your computer equipment am
61. twice on it This will also automatically open the Font Mover You ll see in the Installed section the few fonts you already had in your small System File on the disk In the Fonts section you ll see the names of Select all the fonts in the Fonts section Shift click them or simply position your pointer on the first font hold down the mouse button and drag down through the entire list of fonts They ll all turn black meaning they re all selected Copy all those selected fonts into the installed section which will put all the fonts into the disk s System File After this step your disk will be pretty full because you ve now in effect made a duplicate of the fat fonts file Quit the Font Mover Once back at the desktop throw the fat Fonts file into the trash Don t worry you still have the original copy on your System Disk and you ve already installed a copy of all those fonts in the System File of the disk your working on You re throwing away the fat Fonts file to make room on your disk for more work Washington Apple Pi Now open the file you earlier named New York It will automatically open the Font Mover again On the left in the installed section you ll see all the fonts from the fat fonts file On the right in the section now called New York you ll see only the single font you chose at the beginning when you created the file Select and remove that lone font in the N
62. with MAGIC OFFICE 1 Problems MAGIC OFFICE 2 ULTRATERM ORDER Use wide for greater than 80 cols VIDEO RECORD se as display relay to TV amp recorder X 80 COL Use in Slot w Apple 80 in 0 LESOFT Convert Pro BASIC MINI ASSEM In and e RUN with BASICS Disk RUN without LANGUAGE CARD ASSEMBLY Books on ASSEMBLY Bu Buas in Slot Addressing ASSEMBLY C Y Bit Usage ASSEMBLY File length parameter limit on BSAVE October 1985 contd Washington Apple Pi LANGUAGE ASSEMBLY Keyboard bunter character storage 8401 10 LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION 6502 Machine Language 8102 3 LANGUAGE MACHINE Loading via Ny LAM routine 1 85 01 3 LANGUAGE MACHINE Loading via S H LAM routine 2 85 06 3 LANGUAGE MACHINE TED Implementation 8211 2 LANGUAGE PASCAL Procedure too long error message 84 05 4 LANGUAGE PASCAL 1 1 How to run on e 8308 9 LANGUAGE PASCAL How to read CARRIAGE RETURN from keyboard 8503 5 LANGUAGE PASCAL IMPLEMENT PIG Lib DERE vs APPLE PASC Disks 8305 5 LANGUAGE PASCAL LARGE PROGRAM PROBLEMS 8111 8 LANGUAGE PASCAL Pass Carria Renum pal Linefeed 8502 10 LANGUAGE PASCAL Unable to 8405 3 LIBRARY SAVE Disk CATALOGS t sin ngle f file w out re 82 05 2 LIBRARY WAP Disks 1 Fix IMP CAT to Comptes m 8206 5 LIBRARY WAP Disks 37 SUPER LE CABINET Print Operators 8303 6 LIBRARY WAP DISKS BOOT Problems 8204 4 LIBRARY WAP
63. with their computers thereby building brand loyalty and encouraging them to spread the word of what their computers can do Jonathan cited figures showing that word of mouth is the most powerful force in motivating people to buy a particular kind of computer and users groups increase the likelihood that people will recommend favorably the kind of computer they use Together Jonathan said all of these factors act to improve the bottom line for Apple by generating sales of systems and add ons Thus he concluded Apple stands to gain much by working with users groups Next I presented the group s five recommendations for a better working relationship l Apple should set up a Users Group Evangelist who would act as liason or focal point between Apple and users groups much in the same way that Apple s software evangelists work with third party software developers The Users Group Evangelist would serve as the knot in a bow tie The Users Group Evangelist Users Groups In order to make the program workable a point I stressed the evangelist would work with groups meeting certain minimum guidelines such as having a constitution or charter a regular publication open membership and a policy against piracy 2 Formalized communications Apple should give users groups new product information technical information and information about exchanges and upgrades to Apple products Users groups should keep Apple advised by sen
64. 00 O contd Washington Apple Pi WORD PROC EASY WRITER Lower Case Generator for Easy Writer 8012 6 WORD PROC ESPERANTO Spec characterss On Screen amp from Printer 8307 1 WORD PROC KEYBOARD EPROM to convert QWERTY to DVORAK chars 1 85 06 10 WORD PROC KEYBOARD EPROM to convert QWERTY to DVORAK chars 2 88509 4 WORD PROC Multi Pass to get Various Fonts 8207 3 WORD PROC S R II Using Altemate Character Sets 8301 3 WORD PROC SCREENWRITER GET buffer problem with v2 2 8503 3 WORD PROC SCREENWRITER Super Subscripts Pikaso Fonts Pause 83 08 2 WORD SCREENWRITER w LE VO errors saying GET buffer 8411 2 WORD PROC Problems w OKIDATA 92 1 8404 4 WORD PROC UNDERLINING Problems w WRITER II OKIDATA 92 2 8405 1 WORD PROC WORDSTAR e EXTENDED 80 COL CARD Ram disk 02 4 WORD PROC WORDSTAR Custom Install to Enable Print Controls 836 3 WORD PROC WORDSTAR Patch to use 2 Printers from slots 1 amp 2 1 8406 11 WORD PROC WORDSTAR Patch to use 2 Printers from slots 1 amp 2 2 8409 1 THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF WASHINGTON APPLE PI by Joe England The Future of WAP was the theme assigned to the special September meeting With the many changes in the leadership and the direction of both Apple and WAP this is an ideal time for members to consider the aspects of this well chosen theme It s just as important that the resulting ideas and opinions be discussed voted upon and presented to the board of direct
65. 1 locate types NilPtr locate r 2 if r good 0 then result r fname else result end OldFileName Procedure PageClr like page output declarations for PageClr contd on pg 57 Softviews by David Morganstein Ne Next month this column will contain a comparison of six Apple spreadsheets MagicCalc AppleWorks FlashCalc MouseCalc Multiplan and SuperCalc 3a Laserstart Our ABBS has been abuzz with discussion of the use of the Hewlett Packard laser printer with a Macin tosh I can report that the connection with the HP is a good one and when the necessary printer driver is installed it is as easy to use as the Imagewriter The street cost of a Hewlett Packard is down to around 2200 While the current version contains only 56K of RAM memory a new plus version is expected shortly that will contain about a half a megabyte The version Westat has provides approximately 75 dots to the inch where Apple s Laserwriter gives you about 300 dots to the inch The printer driver I have used came from Softstyle at a price of 95 00 which included the 9 pin Mac to 25 pin HP cable When booted the Laserstart disk allows you to configure the Mac port printer or modem and the baud rate up to 19200 to match the HP When you have made these decisions the program will modify your System disk in two ways First you get a new printing resource your Imagewriter file is replaced with a LaserJet file Second you get
66. 13 Washington Apple Pi Apple For Me Update BY David Ottalini Since last we left the Association of Independent Micro dealers Fans a third catalog has come out listing many of your favorite products all at reduced prices In addition AIM has decided that due to the overwhelming success of their initial efforts they will now begin taking memberships at 25 00 per year In return for the bucks AIM says they will support the completely they will make products knowledge support and advice available And they ll intro duce an 800 number to make communication easier AIM also says that if you are at anytime unhappy with your membership you can quit and get a prorated portion of your money back I like their catalogs simply for the descriptions of the software It s easily the most complete you ll find at the present time If you re interested in joining or getting more information AIM s address is 3010 N Sterling Ave Peoria Il 61604 Phone is 309 685 4843 I should also mention while I ve got your attention that another er who is growing due to success is Charles McConathy He deals in hardware and software exclusive ly A recent flyer from him indicates a move to bigger quarters CMC Computer Systems 1514 East Edinger H Santa Ana CA 92705 714 835 2462 McConathy offered a number of specials during Septem ber Many of them beat AIM s prices for the same products rather handily For exampl
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68. 28 Planetfall ls Fe GRAPHICS Bun E Money Number Farm 21 Filevision Card S Bar CHE Forecast ard Shoppe 41 A Helix Clickart Publications 420 Starcross SAT Word Attack Skills 21 Home Accountant Graphic Accents Transylvania Wishbringer Witness Zork Zork Il Ill No charge s or CODS Prices subject to change Call for items not listed Thank You 0 Box 1247 Coumbia MD 21044 301 854 2346 26 DISK Commands Misfire After Using GET Statemen DOS COMMANDS after editing pive SYNTAX ERROR EDITING CREA TING BASIC FROM APPLEWRITER XEC DOS FILES How to change a running dd FRE eo GET Statement for A VAL A not D or OUSUs Avoid Line Search komt Prog Beginning HEX DUMP OF APPLESOFT PROGRAMS Precautions HI RES CHAR GEN Run 2d Prog Same Disk w o Char Gen HIMEM LOMEM Normal Settin Changing ifference IF Interference with Remaining Statemen INPUT Ey ANYTHIN NULTIMATE Modifies program INPUT A uation input by user INPUT E A GNO after commas colons INPUT READ Characters Without RETURN Command INPUT Strings s with Commas Colons and Quotes LINE NUMB RS Why is Max Line Number 63999 LINE NUMBERS Why is Max Line Number 63999 2 LIST during entry last lines disappear LIST Preventing LIST Print List with More Than 40 Characters Line ME Out of Memory Error when FRE 0 30K NEW Recover Tu in RAM After Typing NEW NOISY HELLO P PEEK POKE Referenc
69. 32 to WP5566 07 22 Color Mac I ll go with the market With the new Atari and Commodore computers due out soon the Mac will need color to stay in the technological limelight I saw the new Commodore at the computer show last November awesome is the word Joe Chelena From WP4985 to WP3432 07 23 Color Mac Andy Hertzfeld says that the color Mac will not be out until 1987 He also indicated that larger screen Macs would be available and that the two sided internal disk drive will be available when the new 128K ROM stuff is available Probably September or in the finest Apple tradition in the next two weeks which can mean whenever Martin I read Hertzfeld interview on CSI He should know what is going on at Apple but remember that market pressure caused the 312K Mac to be released early Also it was reported some time back that Apple was asking software nones to produce color versions of Mac software Joe elena From WP3181 to WP3432 08 02 Re Need Color Mac Joe market forces WILL NOT force Apple to market a color Mac unless there is some price break thru on the costs of high res color The supposed reason it is B amp W now is that for the same price a color version would have come with much lower resolution decided that since over 90 of all business use the intended Mac market only requires B amp W that that was the way to go Eventually a color Mac makes sense but only those who NEED the color for special u
70. 77 7 Bulletin Board within the Pi Board 17 18 PI SIG 19 Apple 20 21 22 23 WAP Mtg Directions will be given on the phone 8 00PM 0ff Beginning Pascal SIG 9AM Walt they are simple Mac Begin Tutorial 3 8 00 PM Whitman HS 5 get organized and have fun Tutorial 81 7 30 9 00PM Office Aspects of 7 10 Off Office Music 24 25 26 28 29 30 Mac Begin Have a good Tutorial 2 Thanks 7 10PM giving Office 6 October 1985 Washington Apple Pi ey MINUTES Summary of July Executive Board Meeting The Executive Board of Washington Apple Pi met at 7 30 PM on July 10 at the office with Tom Warrick presiding The President reported that Siew Youell had been selected as an additional staff member A vendor show was discussed Financial statements were distributed and explained by the Treasuer a summary is to be included in the Journal A competition to find the oldest Apple owned by a Pi member was approved A motion was carried that demo disks from commercial sources would not be carried in the WAP Diske teria A special monitor for the Mac tutorials was discussed A decision was made that Bernie Urban should determine when special commercial mailings would be made and the price to be charged these mailings are done by the Pi not the commercial mailer Office space after January 31 when our current lease expires was discussed The Glen Echo Park site was reported on Summary of August Executive Board Meeting The
71. 8 Sense accounting w graphies 69 8 79 Peachtree Peachpak GL AR API 811 three 229 Back to Basics Accounting GL AR AP each 59 BPI Accounting GL AR AP PAY INVENTORY 245 COMMUNICATIONS Ascii Express Professional for 005 3 3 80 Z tern Professional for 90 CospuServe Starter Kit password amp 5 free hours 25 Microsoft TASC Applesoft cospiler 119 80 125 Terrapin 1 000 65 0005 amp 05 Kensington Systea Saver Fan w surge protector 66 Kraft Joystick TG Joystick Hayes Mach III 35 35 39 KoalaPad Graphics Tablet with graphics softuarel 85 Flight Sisulator II SUV baie d vn ARMS 96 Print SHOP ka hec bere aie 36 Filevision graphics database systeal Odesta Helix database for the serious Dollars 8 Sense accounting w graphics 95 Hicrosoft Word what HacWrite should have been Chart presentation business 5 85 125 Basic 99 I Hultipl n i ceret er sates 125 N MacEnhancer has the ports Apple forgot 175 T Lotus Jazz word proc database graphics aore call a Assisilation Process Mac Memory Disk 24 S Ionega Bernoulli Drive 5
72. 83 Yes enctosed is my check or money order tor 24 95 Ptease send me a subscription for Microroots Nama October 1985 9 APPLE SIG NEWS by Charlene Ryan As promised here is a capsule version of survey results that have been coming in over the summer I mailed out 82 surveys From those I received 43 responses If any of you are ever involved in surveys this is a very good response percentage Two respondents no longer have machines but wish to remain on mailing lists To those of you who have not responded it s not too late None of the surveys bounced back due to unknown addressees This survey is also an attempt to see if you are still interested I will no longer include you in our monthly meeting notices or give your name to other sources for Apple information unless I hear from you If you did not get a survey blank you are not on my list or were removed inadvertently Please help in correcting errors or bringing my records up to date Among the 43 who responded we have a total of 57 machines 10 of us have more than 1 machine 20 good souls agreed to be included in a HOTLINE list next month s project Most of those who will be on the HOTLINE use their machine for business not hobby which I thought was interesting 24 members use Apple for business 8 for hobbies and 4 for other Because I designed the form poorly and didn t leave more space to explain other that was all I got Seven of
73. A 25 Mhz 149 00 PANASONIC 1300 COMPOSITE amp RGB 239 00 e400 RGB 289 00 MONITOR STAND DENOTES NEW PRICE OR ITEM LONG DISTANCE CALL TOLL FREE FROM ANY TONE GENERATING PHONE DIAL 950 1088 IF YOU RECEIVE ARECORDING DIAL 800 446 4462 INSTEAD WAIT FOR TONE DIAL 363 1313 31 00 Washington Apple Pi MODEMS lel ZOOM TELEPHONICS 300 109 00 tle MODEM amp SOFTWARE 159 00 CENTAURI 300 US ROBOTICS 1200 PENRIL 1200 PROMETHEUS 1200A US ROBOTICS 2400 GRAPHICS DEVICES POWER PAD amp STARTER KIT VIDEO amp DISPLAY EQUIPMENT DIGITIZER amp W CAMERA COMPUTEREYES CHIPS 64K SET OF 8 256K SET OF 8 GENERAL ITEMS 6 OUTLET POWER STRIP 6 OUTLET WITH SURGE PROTECT 25 SURGE PROTECTOR 30UT 11 00 RF MODULATOR R CABLE GENDER CHANGER COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS LASER 3000 80 COLUMN 1 DRIVE GAME DEVICES CH PADDLE STICKS CH MACH Il JOYSTICK CH MACH Ill JOYSTICK VO PORT EXPANDER 9 16 OR 16 9 ADAPTER LE SPECIAL APPLE COMPATIBLE COMPUTER W 1 DRIVE 80 COLUMN PRINTER INTERFACE KEYPAD WORD PROCESSOR DATABASE SPREADSHEET 475 00 19 00 October 1985 SLOT EXPANSION e 16 RAM CARD EXTENDED 80 COL 8 64K e CENTAURI APS 2 80 CARD 59 00 e S
74. A reasonably safe place in MicroSoft CP M is the Slot BIOS patch area between F200 and F27F So fixing the problem involves two major elements 1 Modify WS COM locations 4885 488E to go to an external patch routine 2 Writing editing assembling and installing the patch subroutine and incorporating it into the operating system NOTE If you have a different brand of CP M the details of the following procedure might differ because you may have to use an area other than F200 F27F Also some WordStar users might have installed other patches in this area You could use one of the other user patch areas F280 or F300 instead 4 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS 1 Make yourself several copies of a fully configured Wordstar disk with installation completed and with the CP M operating system tracks copied 2 Use DDT COM from a CP M Master Disk to load WS COM into memory d means the drive of your choice probably B DDT d WS COM 3 At the DDT prompt use the A command to make the following changes A4885 4885 CALL F26F 4888 RET 4889 NOP 488A NOP 488B NOP 488C NOP 488D NOP 488E NOP 488F At this point enter a period and RETURN to terminate Assembler 4 Confirm that the patch is correct with the command LA885 5 Exit to CP M using the command GO 6 Save the modified program on drive d SAVE 74 d WS COM 7 Now type in the following code using ED COM some other text editor
75. Ave avd General Information Apple user groups may reprint without prior permission any portion of the contents herein provided proper author title and publication credits are given Membership dues for Washington Apple Pi are 27 00 for the first year and 20 00 per year thereafter beginning in the month joined If you would like to join please call the club office or write to the office address A membership application will be mailed to you Subscriptions to the Washington Apple Pi Journal are not available The Journal is distributed as a benefit of membership Current office hours are assorted software Help with pre buy decisions Personalized Monday Friday 10 AM to 2 30 PM service and reasonable rates Call Lynn R Trusal 301 845 Tues amp Thurs 7 PM to 9 30PM 2651 evenings with no calls after 10 00 PM Saturday 12 Noon to 3 00 PM Washington Apple Pi October 1985 5 d October 1985 SIGNEWS WAP Apple SIG meets on the oe d eM uA RD eee ee second Thursday of the month at 7 30 1 Apple 3 Sighac 5 519 comer of 12th amp NW The next Beginning 7 30PM Lady Thursday 9AM Geotow meeting will be on October 10 See Tutorial 1 of Lourdes 3rd contd Univ PreCl their news elsewhere in this issue 7 30 9 00 GAMESIG DisabledSIG Bld Rm LA4 Apple meets each month after Office 7 30 0 gt 7 Mac XL 516 the regular WAP meeting Sesosseress
76. Core FAC have agreed to field questions on Apple computer hardware and software for FAC members Please no calls after 10 00 PM The SIG MAC of the Frederick Apple Core meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month in the same location and at the same time MAC owners in the local area are welcome Call Lynn R Trusal for details SIG MAC Upcoming Programs September 24 Copy and spelling programs October 22 Demo of Microsoft s Chart program CONFESSIONS OF A SYSOP What Is a BBS Anyway by V Scott Galbraith Frederick Apple Core Those of us heavily involved in telecomputing sometimes tend to forget that most of the world s microcomputer owners still do not own modems and are therefore not intimately familiar with a lot of our jargon In view of that let me set out some basics for those of you who have never experienced the joy of dealing with fellow computer users via a computer BBS BBS stands for Bulletin Board System There are many varied types of computer based BBS s in existence today Tunning on just about any type of computer one could imagine Early BBS s consisted mainly of a dial access computer system where users of the system could call and read messages left by other users and or leave messages of their own They were open systems with lots of commonly accessible text files and a rudimentary command structure Hence the name Bulletin Board System they were just like any public bulletin board in an offi
77. DIF file format Weak Points MC is fairly limited in the functions it supplies While the standard algebraic functions are provided as well as several statistical ones there are no economic or triponometric functions whatsoever Logical functions and look up are permitted but the useful Table function is absent Files can not be linked to permit automatic consolidating That is you can not create four quarterly files which add automatically to a fifth annual file whenever any quarter is changed MC does allow you to merge a file with the current one adding or subtracting the individual cells Unfortunately MC does not offer a sort capabilty As is the case with many commercial programs it is copy protected but does come with a back up disk Version Soft 910 W Maude Ave Sunnyvale CA 94086 contd NOTE Change in location of 4th Saturday meeting for October and November See Event Queue for details Washington Apple Pi ANAK SOS 8 x X x VA R RIAR RIR fttt ot ts SES RS Ryan s Express 662 2700 Balloon Bouquets 4516 Olympic Blvd New Brighton WA 98222 This is Geneva 12 point ThisisGeneval4point This is Geneva 12 point bold Thisis Geneva 14 point bold This is New York 12 point This is New York 14 point HP Laser Printer Washington Apple Pi 662 2700 Balloon Bouquets 4516 Olympic Blvd New Brighton WA 98222 RE ence PPP UU Oc
78. Disks BRUN Y File ERRORS 8205 7 LIBRARY WAP Disks Defec 8211 5 LIBRARY WAP DISKS SUPER FILE CAB Improve Search Sort Params 8208 1 MACINTOSH IMAGEWRITER Prints only from MACWRITE 8405 5 MISC APPLE II pncrpendable electric service 8401 8 MISC DUST COVER outers 8310 5 MISC FLOPPY ARMOUR Supplier 8012 4 MISC FOREIGN POWER S Use of AD veh d with 8311 10 MISC GRAPHICS output E CASSETTE 8312 11 MISC POWER Space ES SAVE aier after 84 03 3 MISC POWER S eeded in in average home 84 06 6 MISC RESET A m ees when RESET is 85 02 3 A J 300 1 SUPER SERIAL what software 1 83 12 10 MODEM A J 300 1200 SUPER SERIAL CARD what software 2 8403 1 MODEM ABBS Occasional GARDAGE on SCREEN response 83 08 6 MODEM ABBS Save Text on D 8106 7 MODEM APPLE e 80 COL CARD PROBLEMS 8412 2 MODEM APPLE 1200 What is full du lex command 85 06 8 MODEM COMMUNICATIONS C Availibility of kit g 8310 9 MODEM COMMUNICATIONS CARD Availibility of kit 2 8311 1 MODEM COMMUNICATIONS Set for 110 baud 8106 2 MODEM DOWNLOAD FILE PROGRAM TOO LONG when RUN 8506 5 MODEM HAYES MICROMODEM II ABBS Pien on Problems 8109 6 MODEM HAYES MICROMODEM II Control of Receive Terminal 8101 4 MODEM HAYES MICROMODEM II Heat problem with APPLE II 8101 3 MODEM HAYES MICROMODEM Send receive lower case 83 08 7 MODEM HAYES MICROMODEM II Software for 80 column 84 06 9 MODEM HAYES MICROMODEM Unable
79. Format Henry Donahoe 298 9107 490 7484 Gutenberg Neil Muncy Can 298 3 986 9522 amp Sr Harris Silverstone 435 3582 460 0754 Letter Perfect Leon Raesly 0 07 593 8420 Magic Window and II Joyce C Little 321 2989 60 0754 Peach Text Carl Eisen 483 736 4698 PIE Writer Apple PIE Jim Graham 643 1848 935 5617 ScreenWriter Peter Combes 251 6369 460 0754 E E Carter 363 2342 977 3054 Supertext II Peter Rosden 229 2288 620 2103 Word Handler Jon Vaupel 977 3054 362 3887 Word Juggler Carl Eisen 354 4837 0 5206 Barry Fox 820 5206 LES Word Star B apend 7 10 953 1949 330 4032 ana Ke 350 3283 654 443 Calls up until midnight are ok October 1985 Washington Apple Pi DISABLEDSIG NEWS by Jay M Thal APPLE FINALLY DOES IT For several years now we ve made efforts to get Apple to estalish an office within the corporation focusing on the needs of the disabled We ve done that through letters as well as ina direct discussion with the legendary Woz Now they ve done it or at least taken an initial step and we re glad Apple has created an Office of Special Education Programs to work with educational institutions and service and advo cacy groups Heading the Office is Dr Alan Brightman who previously worked with the Apple Education Foundation and the Apple University Consortium He can be reached at Apple 202 Mariani Ave Cupertino CA 95014 or tele phoned at 408 996 1010 We hope that Apple will go further It s in their best i
80. G PRINT 20 0 CHR 4 E CHR 27 30 FOR I 768 TO 774 READ X POKE LX NEXT 40 REM LOAD AND ORA ROUTINE AT 300 S0 DATA 41 127 5 6 76 7 193 60 REM SET UP OUTPUT VECTOR FOR SLOT 1 70 POKE 62 1 CALL 361 80 PRINT REM ACTIVATE CARD 90 1529 255 REM LOCATION DEPENDS ON 100 POKE 54 0 POKE 55 3 REM SET OUTPUT DETOUR VIA 300 110 CALL 1002 120 POKE 6 0 130 PRINT E E I 140 READ X IF X 255 THEN 170 150 POKE 6 X PRINT CHR X 160 GOTO 140 170 PRINT D 180 PRINT E A ES SA E A ES 190 PRINT D PR 0 END 200 DATA 65 72 0 28 10 9 10 28 0 0 210 DATA 193 104 0 112 40 36 40 112 0 0 220 DATA 255 contd LISTING 2 10 REM CHARACTER SET DEMO 285555 RE 80 PRINT 90 NEXT D CHR 4 CHRS 27 PRINT D PR 1 PRINT FOR I 1 3 FOR J 1 TO 14 AD A 70 PRINT E A E A E A 100 PRINT E 110 PRINT D PR 0 END 120 Eo A B C D E F G H 1J K L M N O P Q R S V W X Y Z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 140 REM THE IS A NULL STRING 150 REM TO COMPLETE THE COUNT LISTING 3 10 REM DOWNLOAD USING POKES 130 DATA FINAL 20 D CHR 4 E CHRS 27 30 PRINT D PR 1 40 PRINT ES ES T 50 FOR I 1 TO 821 READ X 60 POKE 70 PRINT 80 END 90 DATA 100 DATA 110 DATA 120 DATA 130 DATA 140 DATA 150 DATA 160 DATA 170 DATA 180 DATA 190 DATA 200 DATA 210 DATA 220 DATA 230 DATA 240 DATA 250 DATA 260 DATA 270 DA
81. Handicapped Exchange BBS 301 593 7033 which is dedicated to information and problem solving for the handicapped There are also boards which are devoted to the exchange of ideas hints etc among the many people who are interested in adventure gaming and D amp D pursuits In fact many boards are now adding sections where USERS can participate in adventure and role playing games on line BBS usage is really limited only by the imagination of the SYSOP and the USERS They are also limited from abuse only by the responsibility of the SYSOP and the USERS BBS SYSOPS do not have an easy time of it They must be constantly alert for abuse of the system by those with a limited sense of social responsibility As with anything used by a large cross section of humanity the BBS is a two edged Sword On systems which provide private E Mail among USERS most SYSOPS must monitor these exchanges at least on a spotcheck basis to insure that their system is not being used to support illegal activities Because of this the SYSOP must also be mature and responsible enough to ignore forget anything he sees which is not illegal and is none of his business There is always system maintenance work to be done There are prospective USERS to check out and add to the system non users to remove out of date bulletins and public messages to remove uploaded software to check out and move to the download sections if suitable etc One of the chores I just mentioned is
82. IONEER version only 125 00 REQUIREMENTS 64 128K RAM Dos 3 3 80 column card Apple Il IIc Apple Pascal 1 1 or 1 2 To order or request more information contact WOODCHUCK INDUSTRIES 340 West 17th Street New York NY 10011 212 924 0576 212 206 6490 TYSONS CORNER CENTER S Information on Store Names Sales Events Restaurants Theatres Gifts Metrobus Schedules and Much More Computer Access Number 703 893 0874 ALL HOURS CONSULTANTS APPLE ADD ONS 7 OVER COST MONITORS MODEMS PRINTERS AND BOARDS DISK SPECIAL BOX NASHUA 2D S 11 75 CALL ALL HOURS 384 5910 um AX ee Washington Apple Pi October 1985 49 THE BEST OF THE WAP ABBS by Brian Mason From WP6836 To ALL 07 25 ProDOS SmartCom I I recently bought a copy of the Hayes Smartcom I communi cation software that supports ProDOS I have been having some problems with the cursor stalling in the middle of text when I am trying to read messages on this BBS and others S anyone else out there own this particular software and if 50 is it giving you trouble I ve run the DOS 3 3 version without any problems and think that the software may have a bug I am using the software with a Hayes Micro Modem e Thanks for any help you give me Bob T WP6836 From WP4795 To WP6836 07 26 SmartCom I ProDOS Are 19 running Smartcom PD on an enhanced e The old 3 3 Smartcom started giving
83. Levine Dave Helfrick Joan Dunham October 1985 45 APPLE KEYS by Tom Kroll When I first started to learn to program in Basic I always wanted to program the OPEN APPLE and CLOSED APPLE keys I mean I did buy an Apple computer and Apple would surely show me how to use them or at least explain them to me in my c owner s manual Well so much for naivet But my stubborness has never let me forget about using those two keys When I found a copy of the Apple c User s Manual I found in the back a list of Useful PEEKs and POKEs And lo and behold there were the PEEKs for the OPEN and CLOSED APPLE keys Now the fun began what are PEEKs and POKEs I must have spent a couple of evenings of work to figure out how to use them The book said that if the value of the memory locations 49249 or 49250 was 127 the OPEN or CLOSED key was pressed and if the value was less than 127 then the key was not pressed For about two nights I tried to write a simple program that would print OPEN APPLE and CLOSED APPLE whenever I pushed the appropriate keys However the com puter would print the OPEN and CLOSED messages either all the time or whenever IT wanted to I got desperate and decided to see if I could actually see what the value at these locations were So I wrote the following program to see what was going on inside my computer Don t laugh it was big doings to me 10 A PEEK 49249 20 PRINTA 30 GOTO 10 The value of A
84. Mac Disk 23 Fonts III This is the third SigMac disk devoted strictly to type fonts The disk is a condensation of 6 months accumulation of disks and downloads It has so much material on it that we had to leave off MacWrite and MacPaint and the SigMac startup screen as well On this disk there are 34 fonts of 18 different type faces Face the letterform design Font the set of characters for a point size of a type face All but two of the faces are in the public domain many have been created by members of the New York Mac Users Group NYMUO The fonts have been sorted into folders according to style and use Two items on this disk are MacPaint documents One is a keyboard map for all the extra characters in the Boston fonts The other is a sampler of the display and cursive faces on the disk The remaining file on this disk is called Characters MacWrite document designed by Jason Kanter of NYMUG who also designed this type face Vancouver 12 This docu ment will show all possible characters of a given font Merely convert the document to the font you wish to see by highlighting the whole thing and selecting the new font To install these fonts on any disk of course you will have to use a Font Mover preferably the new Font DA Mover since you don t have to move the Mover to the disk you re working on even on a one drive system SigMac Disk 24 Telecom I BinHex 5 0 by Yves Lempereur is a newer version of the
85. S Printing problems with other printers 1 APPLEWORKS Printing problems with other printers 2 DATA Easily Replace Update Stored Data D Memory to Screen or Printer 9 DUMP Memory to Screen Printer 2 DUMP SCREEN Conversion for Silentype Printer FAST GARBAGE COLLECTION Obscure command explanation GRAPHICS TOOL KIT How to return to Lisa Assembler MAGAZINE PROGRAMS Inaccuracy of Printed Programs AGAZINE PROGRAMS Purpose of Extra Line Numbers MULTIPLAN V1 06 Print problems NIBBLE MAGAZINE Program Eligibility for WAP Lib PRINTER TYPE DETECTION FROM PROGRAM PROGRAM LISTING FORMATTER Won t EXEC nor 80 col LIST RAM Split Program Around Hi Res Page 1 RAM to Display Numeric Content of RANDOM Array Generator SORT Sped of Applesoft vs CP M STATISTICS Program like SPSS for DOS 3 3 or CP M SUPER CABINET Mixed integer decimals sort wrong VT 100 EMULATOR GENERATOR Interface Audio Output to Speaker MUSIC Board cheap APPLEWORKS Can several files be merged GRAPHICS For Pie charts Bar Charts etc SPREADSHEET 2 0 Change default Printer Settings VISICALC PRINT Expressions and Entries VISICALC Replicating a number column w o formulae VISICALC SAVE Screen Data to Other Files VISICALC SORT How to 1 VISICALC SORT How to 2 SORT Program to sort rows VERIFY Saved Program Before Erasing RAM Memory CONTROL Characters EXEC Errors when in TEXT File DISPLAY Wavy and fli
86. SLERAZRLSSRLSVSSSLSERARSSARSRAVARASKERVSRESSNAXMHARKAHSESSSSRVSE5g SSAESLELLLELSARKSSSSSALERERSSSSRASRELERLVERMHSAGSAARASHIOUSRRSSAAS RSOSRELLELKSLLSEARRSSSRAALERSLSERARSKLELPRLRSLLG KC AARAAHAASXHIGBSSBSeag RSSSSSRRERSAASREREAGSLVSRSSAASEKLSARLLSENRSLSLRESSHESSHSLaSSRHLHgsggess 888888858588858888885555555555555888888885555888558555555858585858888588 888888888888888585888585888888888858588888888588585585885888555588885585888 PEREREUBUSHTSHREDUDUPUPUBSPEODODODODAaBDODODSEDOBEES Washington Apple Pi MODIFICATION TO DISKCAT by Rick Chapman I just finished typing in Bob Velke s DISKCAT program that was published in the May 1985 WAP Journal The program is very useful but has a minor bug as pub lished Whenever a file name with 15 characters is encountered the last character is displayed several spaces to the right of where it should be displayed or printed The problem is due to some simple errors in addressing the file descriptor string It can be corrected by making the following changes the changes are highlighted in bold 650 PRINT MID SP 1 LV X 2 MID F 1 16 660 HTAB HT PRINT MID F 17 RM 980 HTAB PRINT MID DI X 1 17 RM After making these changes you should also delete one period from between the words NAME and TYPE in line 570 in order to insure that the column headings are correctly lined up Because I don t always remember the prefix of the disk that I want to catalog I also added a feature allowi
87. STRATION ALL GUESTS RECEIVE 20 DISCOUNT CALL 240 2649 FOR DETAILS 21 Q amp A by Bruce F Field A few columns back I reported that Larry Washburn could supply a new F8 ROM for Franklin computers that would allow them to run ProDOS Unfortunately Larry is no longer able to sell these ROMs However he has sent along a tech sheet on how to modify your F8 ROM to make it ProDOS compatible I have included his instructions here 1 You must have the ability to program EPROM s either a 2716 Intel 5 volt only for the ACE 1000 or a 2732 EPROM or A version for the ACE 1200 2 ProDOS upon booting looks at the F8 Monitor ROM at location hex 09 the start of the Title used See page 144 of the Apple II Reference Manual All eight characters must be in place utilizing those hex codes BFF note The eight codes are C1 00 00 CC C5 0 DD DB and spell APPLE Jf 3 Copy the Franklin F8 Monitor ROM into RAM and then using the monitor change the eight values to the new values at location 309 plus the starting address of your RAM address where you loaded the copy of the ROM Use the patched code to bum a new F8 EPROM 4 Insert the new F8 EPROM into the motherboard and then try to boot ProDOS This completes the modification EPROM programmers can be purchased about 65 100 to plug into Apple compatible computers Check the back of many magazines and the Computer Shopper newspaper EPROM s can also be p
88. Stock Planner Real Estate Planner Loan Planner and five other financial programs Hayden Software Inca and The Holy Grail two all text adventure games played in real time for the Apple with 128K Hippopotamus Software Inc 985 University Ave Los Gatos CA 95030 Hippo Computer Almanac 34 95 Demonstrates the tantalizing potential of artificial intelligence it answers plain English questions using a 35 000 fact database currency sports history distances calories time zones and more Group Inc 13895 Industrial Park Blvd Minneapolis MN 55441 LaserBase Information manage ment system Mindscape Balance of Power a strategic game of global conflict where as the USA or Russia your goal is to enhance your prestige through varied foreign policies all the while keeping the world from the brink of nuclear war This is the first Mac effort by Chris Crawford the renowned Atari programmer and game designer of Eastern Front Legionnaire and Excalibur Deja Vue a graphic adventure game set in the Raymond Chandler era which makes the most use yet of the Mac s ease an advenutre gaming environment New Canaan MicroCode 136 Beech Rd New Canaan CT 06840 MacDisk Catalog 39 95 Reads volumes and file names and associated directory information from floppy and hard disks and stores into a data base allows grouping up to 16 categories and can print reports as well as diskette labels and 3x5 cards
89. TA 280 DATA 290 DATA 300 DATA 310 DATA 320 DATA 330 DATA 340 DATA 350 DATA 360 DATA 370 DATA 380 DATA 390 DATA 400 DATA 410 DATA 420 DATA 430 DATA 440 DATA 450 DATA 460 DATA 470 DATA 480 DATA 490 DATA 16232 X NEXT PRINT D PR 0 65 72 0 28 10 9 10 23 0 0 66 72 0 31 21 21 31 10 0 0 67 72 0 0 14 17 17 17 0 0 68 72 0 0 31 17 17 14 0 0 69 72 0 0 31 21 21 17 0 0 70 72 0 0 31 5 5 1 0 0 17 15 1 0 0 75 72 0 0 31 4 10 17 0 0 76 72 0 0 31 16 16 16 0 0 77 72 0 31 2 4 2 31 0 0 78 72 0 31 2 4 8 31 0 0 79 72 0 14 17 17 17 14 0 0 80 72 0 0 31 5 5 2 0 0 81 72 0 14 17 17 21 14 16 0 82 72 0 31 5 5 15 16 0 0 83 72 0 0 18 21 21 9 0 0 84 72 0 1 1 31 1 1 0 0 85 72 0 15 16 16 16 15 0 0 86 72 0 7 8 16 8 7 0 0 87 72 0 15 16 12 16 15 0 0 88 72 0 17 10 4 10 17 0 0 89 72 0 1 2 28 2 1 0 0 90 72 0 17 25 21 19 17 0 0 48 72 0 0 14 17 17 14 0 0 49 72 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 0 50 72 0 0 18 25 21 19 0 0 51 72 0 0 21 21 21 31 0 0 52 72 0 4 6 5 31 4 0 0 53 72 0 0 23 21 21 29 0 0 54 72 0 0 30 21 21 29 0 0 55 72 0 0 17 9 5 3 0 0 56 72 0 10 21 21 21 10 0 0 57 72 0 0 18 21 21 14 0 0 40 72 0 0 0 14 17 0 0 0 41 72 0 0 0 17 14 0 0 0 43 72 0 4 4 31 4 4 0 0 45 72 0 4 4 4 4 4 0 0 47 72 0 16 8 4 2 1 0 0 500 DATA 193 104 0 112 40 36 40 112 0 0 510 194 104 0 124 84 84 520 DATA 195 104 0 0 56 68 68 68 0 0 530 epee 40 DATA 197 1 550 DATA 198 1 570 DATA 200 580 DATA 201 1 590 DATA 202 600 DATA 203 610 DATA 204 1 620 DATA
90. UPER SERIAL INT CARD 89 00 TITAN ACCELERATOR 259 00 e WILDCARD II COPY CD 109 00 MULTIPLE SLOT CHASSIS 149 00 SINGLE SLOT EXTENDER 29 00 QUICK LOADER PROM 149 00 PROM BURNER 119 00 RAMWORKS 64K 139 00 RAMWORKS 128K 154 00 RAMWORKS 320K 178 00 RAMWORKS 512K 218 00 9 RAMWORKS 1 MEG RGB OPTION RAMWORKS 80 COLUMN CARD TIMEMASTER CLOCK AD amp DA BOARD e 32 BOARD MUSIC SYNTHESIZER e Z 80 PLUS FOR II SPECIAL PERIPHERALS COOLING FAN WITH SURGE PROTECT LIFETIME POWER SUPPLY SHIFT KEY MOD KIT e SCREEN SWITCHER DRIVE STEPPER APPLE SOFTWARE e GRAPHWORKS e PLuSWoRKS WRITE CHOICE WORD PROCESSOR PRINT SHOP e SIDEWAYS e COPY Il e ESSENTIAL DATA DUPLICATOR DISK DRIVE ANALYZER 5 SECOND DISK DR FOR STANDARD PARALLEL D PRINTER CONTROLLER e GRAPPLER C SERIAL PRINTER OR MODEM OR DISK DRIVE CABLE 520 00 99 16 GAME 0 ADAPTER 9 00 V CPM FOR lic 2 80 BD 129 00 e 256K MEMORY WITH Z 80 349 00 512 MEMORY WITH 2 80 e SYSTEM CLOCK 8231 WOODMONT AVENUE BETHESDA MARYLAND 20814 STORE HOURS Monday through Thursday 12 noon until 8 p m Friday 12 Noon until 6 p m Saturday 11 a m until 5 p m UPS SHIPPING 4 00 por order plus 6 00 por printer or monitor Call for our free catalogue 10 85 37 The Vico Fro
91. We do not know in fact anything more than an ad that appeared in the National Association for the Deaf s Broadcaster announcing a MacDeaf Newsletter network directory shopping service etc We hope they will contact us and the SigMac No we do not want to take them over but we d like to share resources MacDeaf is headed by Mitchell D Travers 333 Tea Garden Circle Apt 403 Silver Spring MD 20904 146 000 STRONG Did you know that the Federal Government employs more than 146 000 disabled workers No I do not mean the morally handicapped that often grace the columns of Jack Washington Apple Pi Anderson And like their able bodied conterparts they the ones that keep the very fabric of government services stitched together Well the government has established an Interagency Committee for Computer Support for the Handicapped What Not another committee amp gt No This one is headed by Leonard J Suchanek a blind federal judge and is charged with assuring that the benefits of computer technology are available to currently disabled employees and to make federal employment attractive to future workers On October 31 at the Washington D C Convention Center part of the 1985 Federal Office Automation Conference the Interagency Committee will sponsor an all day seminar To register or for more information call 800 343 6944 As Judge Suchanek has said Computer technology is the great equalizer for disa
92. WordStar 3 33 and the Applicard 2 0 280 card or Starcard for 164 95 Since WordStar normally sells for about 185 and the Applicard goes for about 250 it s easy to feel insecure about such an ad Well I threw caution to the wind called the 800 number and ordered the package I m very glad I did I ve been using it for a couple of months now and I haven t found any GOTCHA s yet In fact I consider this to be one of the best purchases I ve ever made WORDSTAR WordStar has been my word processor of choice for the last couple of years After struggling with Apple Writer Letter Perfect and several others WordStar seemed so much more capable and logical to use that I stopped looking for a better program There may possibly be better word processors but there are several reasons why I m not interested in them First I can use WordStar on a wide variety of machines About any CP M or MS DOS machine can run WordStar Second it does everything I want it to do quickly and efficiently Third the relatively modest gains in power and performance I would maybe get from another program wouldn t be worth the trouble of learning a new word processor APPLICARD The Applicard 2 0 or Starcard is quality 6 MHz 280 card that comes with CP M 2 2 and the usual assortment of utility programs It runs rings around the 2 MHz Softcard I ve been using for the past couple of years WordStar is a pleasure to behold running on the faster Appl
93. a CP M card then check out the Borland Turbo Pascal package Excellent software and has the advantage of being transferable to MS S machines Theron Fuller From WP4795 To WP5963 07 27 Pascal Reply Don are you aware that according to some publications Apple plans to release a interpretative version of Pascal about 1 Sep 5 with a cost est of 140 00 Bob Wood From WP6095 To ALL 07 25 Convert to e The following message was lifted from another board in the area and it could be interesting A new card by Checkmate is coming that is supposed to replace the 16K card in slot 0 viding complete compatability with all e c_software e card is ee with 64K of onboard RAM and is expandable to 3 4 MEG 768K The card is being distributed by Colorado Software Connection 303 756 8819 and will be available for shipping on September 1 1985 The cost js 08 25 Best Buys Washington Apple Pi Operant HARDWARE PRINTERS Epson FX 85 160 eps upgrade of 80 359 FX 185 luide carriage version of the abovel 509 LX 80 replaces RX 80 call for 249 4 1500 200 cps fantastic letter quality mode 949 Okidata 192 replaces Oki 92 call for specs 359 193 132 coluan version of abovel 519 Toshiba 1340 144 cps draft BEST letter qual 559 351 288 cps wide carriage version of above 1149 Texas Instrunents TI 855 150 cps draft
94. a new Desk Accessory see below Print Adjustment for se in draft mode to direct the HP Laserstart Print Hdjustment Number of Coples Draft Printing Typefaces 1 9 Line Printer O2 O Pica O3 O Elite 04 Courier o5 O Helv Q Tms Rmn O Gothic O8 O Script 09 O Prestige Adjust When printing everything works as usual The speed and the quality of the HP depends upon several things Lets discuss speed first Printed paper exits most quickly when you select draft mode and let the HP print from one of its own internal fonts however this will only work for text no graphics To print graphics you must select standard or high quality This as with the Imagewriter produces what you see is what you get output When graphics are embedded in ext or when you print from MacPaint the HP is at its v slowest perhaps 40 50 seconds for a full page As to quality you can not expect the resolution of the Apple LaserWriter Using fonts with high point sizes Washington Apple Pi available helps considerably If you want to print in 12 point make sure you have 24 point on the disk for the best results This advice applies to printing in any font as well Softstyle Inc 7192 Kalanianaole Hwy Suite 205 Honolulu Hawaii 96825 800 367 5600 Price 95 00 NWA Statpak In this review a description of the Macintosh adaptation is given Supplied on two disks this extensive collection of 57 separate BASIC
95. achine that was actually developed outside of Commodore As seems to be the rage it has a mouse and a Mac type user interface Its color display is much higher in quality than the ST s but the resolution still doesn t match that of the Mac s monochrome monitor It seems that Com modore is having trouble getting dealers to stock Amiga s because the dealers feel that the market is saturated and what they don t need right now is a new machine without any software even if it is more powerful than others on the market My suggestion watch and wait The AT amp T UNIX PC I was in a computer store the other day and I spent some time a couple of minutes playing with the much touted AT amp T UNIX PC Well I was not at all impressed They had UNIX up and running and it is slow I couldn t get used to how sluggish the mouse was and how clumsy the pull down menus seemed I ll take my Mac Word to the wise this is not a review all I did was move the mouse around and pull down a few menus Rumors from that other company in Boca Raton rumored IBM is still just a rumor Rumblings of the earth flashes of colored lightning and other such happenings have been reported by my friends in Boca but not so much as a detail has emerged from the engineering labs in Florida Guess what I finally took the plunge I went out and subscribed to CompuServe s Consumer Information Service 38 October 1985 better known to those of us who ve r
96. ad this problem with rev 3 3 There ought to be a patch though it isn t simple since they don t use the normal IOS route for keyboard input From WP1095 To ALL 07 30 WordStar 3 3 Bug Thanks to all that volunteered replies regarding the shift M bug I examined the code at 4885 and indeed Micropro made an incredibly stupid and ignorant blunder in the code How many users of rev 3 3 are putting up with this nasty problem Has any registered owner ever received a notice or upgrade to this problem From WP6836 To ALL I read recently that there was software available that would let you operate a remote computer via modem I have an IBM at work and an Apple at home If I understand the articles correctly I could set the IBM up with this software to receive an incoming call from my machine and I could then access and run files resident in the IBM Does anyone out there have any experience with such software Can you recommend software that will accomplish this Could I for example access Symphony on the IBM and run it from my Apple Could I access word processing documents edit them on line and save them back into the IBM s files Thanks for any info on this Bob T WP6836 From WP4893 To WP6836 08 15 Apple to IBM I don t know why anyone would want to talk about IBM on this board but here goes You use something e Crosstalk by Microstuf on the IBM It allows access to most DOS commands from a remote e g Apple
97. aesthetics of the MAC Nice To Have Around Just 3 5 wide and no deeper than the MAC the MAC 10 has a smaller footprint matted data storage there when you need it Equal to 30 MAC floppy drives Storage you ll want for Jazz and other popular business applica tions Your MAC Can Relate To It 5 times faster than the add on MAC floppy So Can You Just plug in the MAC 10 and you re ready to go That s it see your Apple dealer and look at a MAC 10 or call us toll free at 800 822 2020 CA or 800 527 7977 outside CA It will be the beginning of a wonderful relation ship Specifications CAPACITY 12 75 mb unformatted 10 mb formatted DISK DRIVE SEEK TIMES than any other external MAC hard No Surprises The MAC 10 Adjacent track sese 18 ms drive subsystem Nice to carry won t void your Apple warranty or ANGIE 85 ms Maximum 180 ms around too Only 5 pounds require you to modify your system ROTATIONAL SPEED The Right Breeding Paradise The user interface uses pull down 3600 RPM Systems is known for innovative engineering The MAC 10 is the menus just like the one you re used to on the MAC POWER REQUIREMENTS 110 220 Volts AC 50 60hz 50 watts max latest in a line of ground breaking Long Term Commitment The DIMENSIONS micro computer peripheral products MAC 10 comes with a 1 year lim 32 menes from Paradise ited warranty Beh
98. al Peripherals Graphicard parallel w graphics 79 ProClock PRODOS coapatiblel 109 91060 BOARD5 Videx Ultraterm 160 coluan 48 row display call Videotera 80 coluan w softswitch amp inversel 215 80 col card w 64K RAM AppleWorks cospatiblel 95 Applied Engineering Vieusaster Videotera on a budget 119 Rasworks 64K to 1 seg w 80 col 139 MEMORY EXPANSION 4 008604 44 Washington Apple Pi Systems SOFTWARE WORD PROCESSING 199 ScreenWriter II 40 70 80 col display w speller 65 Bank Street Writer or Speller 4 pfs Write Jte 279 Pie Uritor a Boien FAROS 99 HoseUord HoneWord 49135 Sensible Speller IU 005 or PRODOS versions 79 The Word Plus super spelling checker for CP M 95 SPREADSHEETS Multiplan state of the art spreadsheet 70 SuperCale powerful spreadsheet for the JCel 135 INFORMATION dBASE II u ZIP screen 289 pfs File Report or 79 The General Manager 0 0 149 Thinktank electronic thought organizer 95 08 Master 4t latest 185 BUSINESS amp ACCOUNTING Dollars
99. ally meets on Unison a system based in Denver Colorado a growing number of systems get reports of ENA activities through a growing number of porters who download items considered interesting and then upload them to the system they call home ENA s credo Our purpose is to promote electronic networking in ways that enrich individuals enhance organiza tions and build global communities For some if not all of the people who met in NYC in April ENA is a rather serious venture to promote the new medium of computer conferencing cc and to deal with the problems inherent in it now To many it is important to deal with substantive issues such as transmission problems protocols software intersystem links either software or human at the same time that they accomplish the first online intersystem network intended to serve as an example of the potential of this medium to facilitate global communi cations of associations movements and business groups For people who were not in NYC in April people who became curious either through a conference on Parti on The Source or through some reference to or conference about ENA that they found on one of the many online networks represented by ENA members there were varying ideas about what ENA is Some newcomers put their own personal vision onto it even the Original 50 had different ideas Their backgrounds were business oriented independent tele communications corporate gover
100. an Lotus 1 2 3 with more capacity Icon bar that shortcuts applying functions from normal menu bars Trial size available Sabaki Corporation 63 36 98th Place Rego Park NY 11374 MacPoly 29 95 One hundred jigsaw puzzles ranging from easy to near impossible Softstyle Inc 7195 Kalanianole Highway Honolulu Hawaii 96825 DecisionMap 145 Graphics based decision modeling software Topexpress Limited see above Express Mail 250 for up to 6 users 100 for each additional 6 users A central server for use with a file server and individual desk acces sories for storing and forwarding memos MacEQABYTES This hardware product adds memory to your 128K of 12K Mac to dang tt up to a total of 1024X bytes The additonal memory can be used by our PRAMDISC software tn place of a mechanical floppy disk drive and can Coiver faster and better performance The advantages of having 1 mogabyte of memory In your Mac inchde funn f mg that pertorm chish socess far quicker by using the RAMDISC instead of the There are exciting amp ppica ont Such as graphics Iha can bze ihe extra CONVERSIONS 128K into 024K 0649 C2 512 Mac into 1024K 549 Ki 120K Mac into 1024X Mac K2 5120 Mac into 1024K Mac ENHANCEMENT RE Rom Enhancement Beck Tech loremont Hotel Pe a ve Advanced we tor At rstataton 17801
101. an excellent article on Apple Writer and the LaserWriter combo Has put together a utility package too See this month s Computer Shopper Claims to blow away Mac Tom Vier From WP3794 To ALL 08 02 Wam ProModem Users Warning Promodem users with must _ never inadvertently hit A just after a power on It can wipe out your directory Either by deleting it or making it up to K s worth of garbage Guess how I found Tom Vier PS Yes I had a backup From WP4725 To ALL 08 06 Help Micro Org 64K I bought a new Micro Orange buffer 64K using e Oki 92 Unable to stop printer without stopping system I can get print of catalog then system locks up totally until I turn inter off not familiar w card but have 64K Prac eripheral card which works grean Very with mi cud Can you help Ready to return card Joe 301 247 From WP2243 To WP4725 08 07 Org Buffer R Joe Same type problem here Can t flush the buffer short of turning the whole system off Next time I ll know to stick to the stand alone buffers that can be flushed without turning the world off Brett From WP2383 To WP4725 08 09 Buffered Grappler Joe I have the buffered and I think it s great Don t get rid of it If you are in the middle of a download to the printer and you want to stop the printer just take the printer off line with either the on off or the deselect switch and empty the Grappler buffer see page 19 of the in
102. answer Courier 2400 2400 1200 300 autodial ans Anchor Autoaation Express 300 1800 loaded w features Volksaodes 12 300 1200 baud R5 232 DISK DRIVES A2 drive 100 Apple cospatible 169 A 5 half height 100 Apple cospatiblel 149 8 5 half height for Apple 1 169 Corvus Winchester calli CP M amp 6502C 5 5 5 fpplicard 6 Mhz 2 80 64K to 192K RAM 70 col videol 249 Microsoft Softcard Jle 7 80 80 col amp 64K on one card 265 Softcard II includes CP M 2 2 and HBASIC 239 Titan Accelerator JCE 3 6 Mhz 6502C coprocessor 209 Speed Denon 165026 high speed coprocessor 229 Engineering Z Ram 256K CP M randisk for 21 345 RS Andek 3006 3004 12 green asber anti glare 18Mhz 125 139 JB 1201 1205 green apber anti glare screen 20Mhz 145 JB 1260 12 green 15Mhz best value for poney 99 USI PI 2 12 green anti glare screen 20 Mhz PI 3 12 asber anti glare screen 20 Mhz INTERFACES amp BUFFERS amp CLOCKS Pkaso U printer interface superior graphics amp sore 111 99 ShuffleBuffer 32 108 u cut amp paste ser and 269 Grapplert printer interface parallel w graphics 85 Buffered Grapplert 16K ta 64K buffer plus graphics 149 CCS 7711 Super Serial for printers amp aodeas 99 Practic
103. ard CP M is booted it uses the Softcard When Applicard CP M is booted it uses the Applicard Simple as that Thanks to Charles Franklin for telling me this In the minus column I can only think of a few minor deficiencies The Applicard can t run CP M 3 0 but neither can the Softcard The Z80 cards that can run CP M 3 0 are all pretty expensive There are only a couple of programs which I haven t yet gotten to work under Applicard CP M One is MDM740 but I know there s an overlay available to fix this I just haven t found it yet The thing I miss most is ZCPR2 but that too can be adapted in time Although Applicard CP M 2 2 does not include a BASIC interpreter I ve been using the BASIC from my 56k Softcard CP M disk without problems The BASIC from the 60k Softcard disk doesn t work under Applicard CP M However I can run a larger BASIC program using 56k BASIC under Applicard CP M than I can using 60k CP M BASIC Programs such as Deskmaster are now usable because of the larger memory and faster execution The Applicard is capable of being used as a 64k RAMdisk under DOS 3 3 but only in a very limited way This only works with straight DOS 3 3 no Diversi DOS etc and FID ugh I tried using several other programs which normally recognize extra RAM on the without success SUMMARY I consider the WordStar Starcard package to be an exceptionally good value at 164 95 When used with a good 80 column card it adds excellent wo
104. ate more easily There was some discussion as to whether users groups could get on AppleLink and Ellen took the matter under advisement Several groups asked whether it would be possible for Apple to put a one page flyer into the boxes of Apple computers that would explain to purchasers the benefits of joining a users group and would indicate where the nearest one was located The Apple representatives did not think that such a scheme would be fruitful as most people tend to discard such information and that by the time they are ready to benefit from a users group a one page flyer would not even be remembered The Apple people said that only ten to twenty percent of Apple purchasers return their registration cards and that the users groups actually knew the addresses of more Apple owners than Apple did Dealer Sales The next morning s meetings began with a session with Louis Miller Manager of Dealer Sales Catharine Nunes in charge of Dealer Programs and Debra Kuhns Field Marketing Manager The group discussed how dealers and users groups can work better together A number of users groups representatives offered to meet with Apple s Dealer Advisory Council and users groups were encouraged to meet on a local level with the dealers in their areas Product Management of the most interesting meetings was with the people who set product policy for Apple Randy Battat Hardware Product Manager Guy Kawasaki Sue Espinosa Manager o
105. bled people It is enabling them to be educated do their own research be employed and be as productive as non disabled people AFFORDABLE KEYBOARD SHIELDS Keyboard shields have been available for some time at prices ranging from 50 1100 to prevent persons lacking fine motor control from inadvertently striking an unwanted key The shields are now being offered by Adaptive Technology Inc 5334 72nd Circle North Brooklyn Center MN 55429 for only 15 Available now for the Apple line and soon for the IBM PC and PC Jr they can be ordered fully configured or with only specific keys open for particular software needs They are attached by means of velcro and keylocks are available for an additional 1 00 each USE YOUR HOME COMPUTER TO TRACE YOUR FAMILY ROOTS WITH MICROSEROOTS 7411 Riggs Road Sulto A 104 Adotphi MD 20783 301 439 1799 The bi monthly newsletter for the porsonal homo micro computer user Details cost source and availability of 57 genealogical pro E grams amp features for 21 different personal home computers Articles written by other users ang professionals Clearing house for geneatogical Remoto Bulletin Board Systems RBBS Questions answered problems solved information and experi R ences shared Ideal newslet ter journal for the user at any level including beginners Cut out pisce an envelope and mail to 7411 Riggs Road Suite 104 Adelphi Maryland 207
106. bought a 300 peripheral for his Mac that can read and write MS DOS disks Its called a PC Jr He runs communication pro grams on each machine which are connected by a cable between their modem ports With the Amiga advertising a feature to simulate a PC can software simulation of the PC on the Mac be far behind Q Forget the PC How do I get files between the Mac and my Apple A The problem here is that binary file transfer the straight byte by byte copying of file images is the wrong thing to do XMODEM is in this catagory On the Mac the 8th bit the high order bit of characters are normally zero except for some special characters which require a one Under DOS 3 3 the 8th bit is always one You should run communcation programs on each machine and just do a straight ASCII text capture on the receiving machine At the meeting SE Software s Mac transfer program was given good recom mendations Additionally Apple has just announced the 800K double sided 3 1 2 Mac style disk drive for the 568 Suggested Retail Since we will soon be able to plop disks directly into the Mac can better tools be far behind Want to see the Mac simulate a Q What other new announced A Most significantly the 20 Meg Hard Disk for the Mac It sits under the Mac like a MacBottom connects through the external disk port and gives you another disk socket back for a floppy another hard disk or a yet unannoun
107. c Begin the SigMac meeting on the first Satur Tutorial 2 day of the month 7 10 PM PIG the Pascal Interest Group Office meets on the third Thursday of each month at the office 8 00 PM PASIG 00 hiad a of each month at the office 8 November 1985 SigMac meets on the Ist Thursda of each month programmers meetin WAP at Our Lady of Lourdes School 75 Pearl Street Bethesda MD and on the SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY uc at 1 2 SigMac Sciences Building at 9 00 9AM Geotown SLOCKSIG meetings on the Univ PreC second Thursday of each month at the Bldq GAZ amp 4 office 8 00 PM a iL Telecom SIG meets after the TEM RM MV EROR ERE a LISA MacXl regular WAP meeting on the fourth ay 3 4 5 Apple 6 7 SigMac 9 Deadline Beginning abate for Journal Tutorial 1 of Lourdes 7th contd m Articles 7 30 9 00PM DisabledSIG GAMESIG PET M Ar Y abas Offic 7PM CCCC 7 30 0ff II SIG for the Pi but non machine scopus Specific first organizational 10 n 12 Apple 14 15 16 meeting will be in Alexandria on Beginning STOCKSIG Friday October 11 at 8 30 PM Call Tutorial 42jBoard 8PM Office Nick Veloz at 836 1696 evenings or 7 30 9 00 7 30 PM leave message on the WAP BS Office We will also have a special dBase MONA CUR Velle xeMEMteeeeepBEMec 7
108. c disk doesn t have the benefit of the final version of the instructions Apple dealers should have Switch er with instructions on their shelves in late Fall for 19 95 suggested retail It should also appear sooner bun dled with other products such as Microsoft s Excel Apple has referred to Switcher as a Publically Available as opposed to public domain program So the terms of the software license may turn out to be more liberal than other commercial programs Q Using MacWrite version 4 5 when trying to open large documents created with version 22 I get a message that the disk is full Since it has lots of space on it how do I continue A It can be done though I forget the exact recipe Try it with MacWrite on the other disk internal vs external and try a large block of free disk space on each disk You may need to make a thinned out copy of the MacWrite System disk by deleting fonts DAs and unused files such as the Scrap book Q Will using a RAM disk help or hurt in cases like this There is no way to predict in advance for a particular ver sion of a given program what combination of 1 space on the internal or external or RAM disk 2 memory available to the program as opposed to the RAM disk and 3 placement of the various files on the disks will get you out of a tight Situation There is no substitute for trial and error except that once you find a magic combination let me know and I ll includ
109. ce building or supermarket and most were accessible to any person with at least a dumb terminal and a modem Over the years the BBS has evolved until there are now systems which rival mainframe dial access information networks such as Compuserve and The Source In 32 October 1985 fact one could consider systems like the two named to be BBS s at the very top end of the scale However the vast majority of BBS s in the world today are of a much smaller scale and are running on a single Apple Radio Shack or IBM computer with one to many floppies and maybe a hard drive A person who runs a BBS is commonly referred to as a SYSOP among many other things which stands for System Operator In many cases the SYSOP is also the owner provider of the computer equipment and telephone line needed to run the system Initially due to the cost of equip ment most BBS s also referred to as boards were installed and supported by computer user groups In recent years many have been placed into operation by individuals who absorb the entire cost out of pocket or support the operation by institut ing subscription fees or requesting donations from system users In the BBS world it is a good and wonderous thing to be a USER one who uses a BBS Most USERS are wonderful people However as in any thing else there are always those who delight in making life miserable for their fellow man As BBS s have evolved it has become necessary for most of t
110. ced backup tape drive transfers at SOOKbit second and has a 85 msec average access time It spins up in 15 seconds and will auto matically boot the Mac when you get the new ROM too Until then you need a special floppy boot disk which installs the new heirarchical file system in RAM In the new file system the Folder serves as the subdirectory of files to use the VAX term replacing the multiple volumes used in current hard disk schemes First dealer shipments start in about a month with an allocation of two per dealer per month until production is expanded in early 1986 Suggested retail is 1499 Also the Imagewriter II replaces the current narrow carriage Imagewriter 250 chars sec draft mode 45 char sec letter quality It comes with a four color ribbon black magenta cyan and yellow which are the primary colors for pigments cyan yellow green for instance 595 is suggested There is an optional 225 single sheet paper feeder and an optional 99 32K built in print buffer An optional AppleTalk card is in the works products have been contd Washington Apple Pi Q Will Thunderscan work on it A Version 2 7 of the software which is being reproduced as the official update version will not Andy is now working on version 2 8 which will Q Will the new ROMs really offer true multi tasking What about Borland s new Sidekick for the Mac which advertises it A With due respect for Chris Klugewicz
111. ch larger and more diverse group than the average organization will facilitate its accomplishment All we need is you The Electronic Networking Association s first face to face in person real time meeting is coming up Plan to be there The Dates November 7 10 beginning Thursday evening with a gathering The Place George Washington University Washington DC Plans are still being made online but here s an idea of some of the areas that will be covered LEARNING AS A THEME Learning how to establish an association without walls a beyond time and space organization Courses about computer conferencing itself for people who are interested but have never tried it before will be conducted ONLINE ONSITE There are some facilities at the university for terminals which will be providing online capabilities for three purposes 1 teaching new users see above 2 vendor demonstrations 3 communicating with member s home systems NETWORKING AND SESSIONS There will be ample time for networking and getting to know one another We want some sessions that will bring us up to date on the field of electronic communications We seem to be heading more for case studies and informal panel discussions than reading papers or giving long addresses Would you like to participate in the Fall Meeting You do not have to be an ENAmember to attend If you are a user of the WAP BBS information will be posted about regest ering for the conf
112. ckering initially OK later RADIATION Affecting Disk Drives SANYO B amp W MONO and II How to improve resolution APPLE e program only prints lower case APPLEWORKS Reset line numbers after forced page break APPLEWORKS w REV B Motherboard probs entering text APPLEWRITER e Tab Controls APPLEWRITER Two files w same name inseparable APPLEWRITER I Use Videx Videoterm 80 Column Board APPLEWRITER II Access 40 80 Column Switch APPLEWRITER II Creeping page s after embedding APPLEWRITER II Enab ing shn t key on e APPLEWRITER II EPSO How to specify hard spaces APPLEWRITER II Expanded print more than one line printer combination APPLEWRITER II Expanded print more than one line 2 APPLEWRITER II Expanded print more than one line 3 APPLEWRITER II modify DELETE key action APPLEWRITER II PREVIEW PAGE w o seeing prev pages APPLEWRITER II Print Font Embedding Commands APPLEWRITER II Top amp Bottom Margin Problems APPLEWRITER II Use of Dan Paymar Lower Case Chip APPLEWRITER II v2 0 on c passin CTL characters APPLEWRITER II VISTA VISION 80 CARD How to use 2 APPLEWRITER II VISTA VISION 80 CARD How to use 2 APPLEWRITER Embed control characters in documents APPLEWRITER Patch to Insert Printer Control Codes BEST ONE Recommendations for APPLE 11 October 1985 2 oo Ww e IO BND VEO CA COO DOM COON AW CONIA WWD Bt W1
113. could not find any problem with the drives but replaced nem I wrote to the company and got a replacement disk ve D Since that time I have not had any problems with e proprint It gave me a big scare as I did not know which was at fault the program or the hardware Since that time I feel it was the program I have been able to copy the program for back up purposes and I am still using it Bob Wood 08 15 Messaging Software Washington Apple Pi From WP6836 To WP4422 08 19 Dollars amp Sense R I have Dollars amp Sense and while I have not had the problem you describe my manual does explain Error 64 If you get this message the manual instructs you that this is a bad disk format error It says to reboot the disk If the problem persists it could be due to 1 drive alignment and or speed problem 2 try switching drives with a two drive system 3 disk medium is bad The manual says that if the error is recurrent you can assist the technical staff by doing the following 1 notice which disk is being read or written to when the error number occurs 2 identify at what point in the program the error occurred and the steps involved reaching that point 2 call tech support at 213 215 0529 I hope this helps Bob T WP6836 From WP2851 To ALL 08 19 Modem Problem I have a Promodem 1200 Apple E and Super Serial Card Cannot use printer while in terminal mode When using AE PRO the Q followed by P just uses the
114. d Displays Disk number 163 is an exchange from the Big Apple Club of New York City The introduction screen and selections are neat therefore they have been left intact One program group is a set of plotting routines that create line pie and graphs from your data Choose how the data is to be displayed and go to it If it is not as desired replot Lots of flexibility in creating the display The second program manipulates hi res screen displays to replace one picture with another in a controlled pro cess An overlay of the new picture moves from any edge of the frame to the opposite side in a smooth motion You choose which way and the program takes it from there Any screen that can be displayed from a file is available to this program WAP DISK 164 Games F Disk 164 is another games disk this one from exchange disks of Big Red Apple Club of Nebraska Included in this disk are some unusual programs Ratmaze puts you in the inside of a maze and the clues you have are the presence or absence of walls Again some mapping will aid your escape See if you can beat the odds of escape At the end the path out is displayed from the top It s fun and a bit different Hoover Dam places you at the controls of the mighty powerhouse in Nevada How you handle the job determines the financial profits of the company artistic license the dam is government owned However it s not just profits you are after the dam can break generators
115. d a z to call A Z as superscripts The digits 0 9 call 0 9 as subscripts but calling 0 9 as superscripts requires using punctuation marks listed in a table These punctuation marks are for 1 9 quite logically these digits using the shift key provided you have an Apple and not the e The marks and require a look up table Results of This Study With my routines ESC makes A Z 0 9 and call Xsame characterY as a superscript reduced in size of course while ESC makes these inputs yield the same characters as subscripts Thus inserting lt 5 gt lt 5 gt lt ESC gt A lt ESC gt into this text results in ASA A and similarly with the other characters Inserting lt ESC gt requires using CTRL V The final lt ESC gt restores normal printing If lower case subscripts and superscripts are desired they can be designed and added to the downloader and have the same properties There are NO arbitrary relations between calling characters and resulting characters To understand and appreciate the situation you should reread a few paragraphs from the Imagewriter User s Manual ESCAPE fetches custom characters in both 8 dot maximum and 16 dot maximum storage modes assigned to ordinary keyboard characters including space ASCII characters with decimal values 32 through 126 see Appendix C 42 October 1985 ESCAPE also fetches custom characters assigned to ASCII characters with
116. decimal values 160 through 191 These characters can t be more than eight dots wide and must have been stored in the eight dot maximum mode When you use ESCAPE for this purpose make sure that DIP switch SW 1 5 is open or an ESCAPE Z CONTROL _ control code is in force see Data Byte Length earlier in this chapter ESCAPE fetches custom characters assigned to ASCII characters with decimal values 160 through 239 In effect it reassigns them to characters 128 lower in other words ASCII 32 through 111 all of the normal keyboard characters except the punctuation marks and lowercase letters above 0 Since the ESCAPE control code permits you to change to a font containing up to 95 custom characters of any width regardless of the position of DIP switch 1 5 and fetch them with ordinary keyboard characters you will probably never need to use the ESCAPE control code However it is available if you ever need to store and use as many as 175 custom characters up to eight dots wide Now reread the next to last paragraph again the one explaining what ESCAPE does It doesn t mean what it appears to say What happens is that ASCII codes from 129 to 255 are identical for most purposes with their counterparts from 0 to 127 the hi bit is ignored in most terminal operations For example Applesoft always adds the hi bit when you use a PRINT command but if the same character is sent to a printer with the hi bit a 0 from machin
117. dge MA Hyperdrive 20 From the folks that brought us the speedy internal 10 Megabyte harddisk drive 20 million bytes no waiting Micro Design 6301 Manchaca Road Austin TX 78745 The Keeper AppleTalk File server with 68008 processor 10 30Megabytes fixed plus 5 Megabyte removable harddisk drives printer spooler supports 1 31 Macs and access to disk volumes through a Desk Accessory Microtech International Inc 29 Business Park Branford CT 06405 Distributor for Dai Ichi Shoji Co BAL 3 5 Disk drives SS or DS with or without digital track Counter Western Automation Labs Inc 1700 North 55th St Boulder CO 80301 DASCH disk acceleration storage control hardware SOOK 495 1Meg 795 amp 2Meg 1295 RAMdisk for the Mac uses printer port in between it and the printer SOFTWARE Blue Chip Software 6740 Eton Avenue Canoga Park CA 91303 Baron A real estate simulation game Trial disk available Creighton Development Inc 16 Hughes Street Irvine 92714 MacSpell Spell checker that doesn t force you to quit the word processor 75K words plus room for 2 5K of your own contains a Thesaurus and word hyphenator GDT Softworks Inc 2800 Douglas Rd Burnaby B C Canada V5C 5B7 The Print Link 84 95 Printer Driver to work with all flavors of Mac and at least seven dot matrix and three Daisywheel printers being tested with a number of other printers should work with any application foll
118. dination necessary to make this change by next month So the meeting will be the second Thursday as before October 10 Keep an eye on the meeting date If I should be successful in changing it it will go to the first Thursday November 4 contd on pg 13 Washington Apple Pi Recipe for Success Our House Special inute Manuals Menu Only the finest ingredients and step by step instructions go into creating a Minute Manual to make your computing life a plece of cake Start using your computer software and printer without having to know programming or having to wade through thick tech orlented manuals Our job is to make your job simple and satisfying with Minute Manuals 151 Course Dot matrix Sri NEW p 3rd Course Dot matrix IN printers n n pa aes A ture explained along with ac All versions P ae Ingrams tual examples Extensive including vam NEC 02S M B d discussion of price and speed PreDOS dis Cours E Ppic ns 2nd Course How to use a id ea 98 dot matrix printer understand END MUCH MOREL MINTOR THE ESCAPE codes MINUTE MANUAL Minute Manual For Apple FOR riter is a complete meal for DOTMATRIX PRINTER A0 Course Conn cting d APPLE WRITER all versions of Apple Writer printer graphics and more 4th Course Buyer s gu
119. ding Apple their publications and by letting Apple know of special events that could be of interest to Apple In addition Apple should sponsor annual or semi annual meetings of a Users Group Advisory Council just as it currently supports a Dealer Advisory Council 3 Enhance dealer users group cooperation Apple should formally encourage good relations between dealers and users groups through its verbal and written communications with 20 October 1985 dealers The groups representatives expressed a willingness to meet with their counterparts on the Dealer Advisory Council to explore ways in which groups and dealers can work together 4 Equipment loans Apple should consider making long or short term loans of equipment to users groups for workshops classes demonstrations and the preparation of publications 5 Speakers Apple should establish a clearinghouse whereby Apple people who are in a position to speak to users groups can do so Ken Silverman then summarized the entire presentation and turned the floor back to the Apple representatives John Sculley thanked the users groups representatives for their recommendations and said that they would be carefully considered Mike Lorelli Director of Marketing spoke next He said that he was pleased that the proposals presented were practical His reaction to each of the five proposals was positive although he could not endorse them on the spot Mike Mount Manager of Sales Planning
120. dle to e D Connector GAMEPORT Problems 5 joystick amp paddle NCE from at Appliances JOYSTICK JIM PAK JAMECO Directions for KEY TEC KEYBOARD for APPLE Problems KEYBOARD Encoder chips different versions KEYBOARD Erratic fick to screen KOALA PAD lesoft Pro Availability R Wrong Letters with Applewriter MECHANICAL RELAYS To drive from Apple MEMORY BOARDS Compare Software nerds with VisiCalc MEMORY BOARDS Use of Extra Mem MEMORY CHIPS APPLE e WRI ns vs 150 ns USE Use with non IMAG TER printers 28 MOUSE Use with IMAGEWRI printers e MULTIFUNCTION CARDS FOR APP PADDLES Unstable readouts and interaction POWER SUPPLY for Weak ak Apple Power Supply RAM CARDS Add dissimilar Ramcards RANA DRIVE Speed adjustment RE BOOT Without using Apple II Power Switch RF MODULATOR Video on Wrong TV Channel ROM to save contents to disk RS 23 UT Can one use game port SCREEN PRINTS MULTIPLE CHARACTERS PER KEY STROKE SERIAL INTERFACE for 5 bit Baudot Code SERIAL PAR ALLEL CONVERTER Construction articles SHIFT MODIFICATION DF hard wire SHIFT MODIFICATION 2 Disables game port SUPER SERIAL CARD Use for modem and printer SURGE PROTECTION Discussion SWITCH ON OFF Replacement Expense Alternatives SWITCH A SLOT Can t use Mou cardi in it ULTRA ROM Doesn t work with VIEWMASTER 80 ULTRATERM and Problems
121. do about it Three Easy Pieces is used by 14 of us from the survey More than half of those who use this software interestingly don t use much else I ve heard it said that if Haba had come 10 October 1985 out with this little bundle a bit sooner it would have beat LOTUS and the IBM PC and would have won over the market And for the person who wants information on how to convert Apple files to IBM PC files call IBM Joking aside you also noted that you didn t have a modem The easy way is through a modem from your Apple into another modem attached to your IBM PC You also need communication software for each computer to work with the modems PC Talk works fine with the IBM For the person who asked for recommendations of modem and communica tion software many of us have excellent luck with the Hayes product line and Access communication software Hayes 300 baud modems were on sale in Sears for 99 Dave Ottalini is now modemized after that lucky find SIG election time is coming up We will hold an election next month with Bill Rosenmund agreeing to co chair for one more year Jerry Chandler will bow out after several years of active participation with the group He was co chair for at least 2 years Thank you from all of us Jerry Dave Ottalini came forward to offer his services as co chair with Bill Thank you Dave Anyone wishing to be considered for this or any other position please be present at the October meeting
122. documented error codes to catch internal errors The Font DA Mover bomb on 128K Macs is of this category Q Is the Font DA mover fixed yet A Within Apple version 2 3 fixes the known bugs I don t know when or how they plan to release it Q Speaking of unreleased software when can we expect to see MacBasic A Never While the product was finally finished the rights to it were sold to Microsoft The Basic used in the Apple series is licensed to Apple by Microsoft and they used this as leverage I don t believe that either company wants MacBasic to see the light of day any more And no it is not now in the Public Domain Q How will the new ROMs affect what s covered in Inside Mac and Mac Revealed A It s hard to say as the ROMs are currently Rumored Only Memory Most of what is documented is likely to remain unchanged with a major exception being the file system If you are currently writing programs don t lose any sleep over the differences It remains to be seen what will be called ROM bugs and fixed or called documentation bugs and not There will likely also be some new functions added that will need to be documented somehow Q Is there any hope for using the new AT amp T memory chips in the Mac to get to 2 Megabytes A If you mean can I replace the 256Kbit RAM chips in a 512Kbyte Mac with the AT amp T 1024Kbit chips in the same way the 256Kbit chips replaced the 64Kbit chips in a 128Kbyte Mac no Howeve
123. e In such a small community where everyone is expected to be supportive and encouraging there needs to be someone or a group of someones to act as in house cynics Someone must be able to say It would be crazy to offer a computer for the business market today unless it supports both a letter quality printer and a hard disk with at least ten megabytes We were told time and again by Apple representatives from the vice presidential level downwards that the arrogance was gone from Apple Presumably this meant the arrogance that a few design engineers or top managers knew what was best for the consumer This is however only part of the solution Apple s real need is to listen to what its users want because real people provide the best reality check The 1985 Apple User Group Conference is but one sign that the new Apple has learned this lesson NOTE Change in location of 4th Saturday meeting for October and November See Event Queue for details Washington Apple Pi October 1985 Paragon Technologies Inc offers classes in our IBM PC laboratory and Apple laboratory in McLean Getting Started With The Micro Computer VISICALC LOTUS 4 2 3 d Base WordStar Programming in BASIC Computer assisted SAT preparation All classes are hands on with one person per computer Call 556 9659 or write to us P O Box 6128 McLean Virginia 22106 HOLIDAY SPECIAL HOST A SOFTWARE FOR KIDS DEMON
124. e Versaform from McConathy is 99 00 from AIM its 230 00 He s also offering a complete 256K system for 695 00 that includes a clock Apple Writer VisiCalc and Quick File along with all cables and system software The s are all reconditioned with 60 day warranty Apple Newsletters contd from pg 12 is distributed on an international basis but then again so is the WAP Journal and the newsletter published by the Apple Owners and Users International group headed by H Joseph Dobrowolski out of the Norfolk area Tm working on a complete and up to date list of those groups and will share the results with you in a future article along with the results of a survey sent to all of them In the meantime here s the addresses and other information about the magazines and newsletters mentioned above MAGAZINE NEWSLETTER COST YR ADDRESS CITY ST ZIP PHONE lli CHEERS 40 00 12513 SE 216TH KENT WA 98031 206 630 2343 ON THREE 40 00 4478 MARKET ST STE 701 2 VENTURA CA 93003 805 644 3514 THE NEWSLETTER MAGAZINE 35 00 Apple SIG News contd from pg 10 Our Pascal Tutorial was postponed due to scheduling conflicts until October 7 This is proving to be a popular event I hope those who really want to go will have responded early Ralph Hofmeister our tutorial leader recommends a book to help us with Pascal along with what we learn at the tutorial He will have a copy with him but if you are like me you will want
125. e Sources 1 ene Reference Sources 2 PRINT COMMAND supplies extra digi PRINT USING Fast capability with PLESOFT PROGRAMS Bin iles Find Start Length Save MS Diff Between Identical Programs 4 PROGRAMS Diff Between Identical Pro PROGRAMS Size Start Poin Free Space Location RAM APPLESOFT Usin RANDOM NUMBER PR RAM explanati RENUMBERING Using DOS 3 2 3 3 in RESET Disable RESET Disable n Running APPLESOFT ET Language Card Problems RESET Prevent x of Program if Pressed RIGHT ARROW Enter as Part of Program Statement ROUNDING Numbers Level of Accuracy vs No of Digits ROUNDING Numbers Procedures for ROUNDING NUMBERS To desired no of decimals SAVE Date to Disk Read back from another program SHAPE Tables Location in Memory SORT Fast Routine SPEED PI 180 vs Rx 0174533 3 14159 180 SPEED Reduce to Upload APPLESOFT to IBM Mainframe STRINGS Non equivalence of Identical Strings STROBE Meaning of Function of TEXT Multiple Windows TEXT Center on Screen for Unknown Strin THIS MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE APP Meaning TRANSFER DATA Automatically from HELLO to other progs TRANSFER rams to other machines amp Apples via Modem WAIT COMMAND COMMAND WRITE TO DISK CO problems EN Use of in Apple ANTAGES amp MPRRS CONVERSION to APPLESOFT for 6502 Processor SYSTEM DISK Some can t find 280 SOFTCARD Z8088 Card vs Z80 Card APPEND Fix fo
126. e code it will print exactly the same way For characters sent to the monitor screen the hi bit is important a O hi bit is a signal to use a flashing or inverse letter which depends on another bit Downloaded characters are substitutes for the characters that are sent to the printer the calling characters Suppose we define Pattern1 as a substitute for A where the A was sent with its hi bit being 0 ASCII 65 or 41 and define Pattern2 as the substitute for hi ASCII A an A sent as 193 Now when we use ESC as the code and send A to the printer the printer reads the incoming A as low ASCII and substitutes Patternl if we use code ESC the printer reads the incoming A as hi ASCII and prints the substitute Pattern2 Thus for characters whose substitutes are defined in the 8 dot maximum mode the use of ESC and ESC con trols how the printer reads the incoming letters as high ASCII or low ASCII Knowing this it is easy to define superscript and subscript substitutes for all keyboard charac ters with the position controlled by the choice of ESC and ESC contd Washington Apple Pi How It Is Done Problem 1 can be solved by stripping the hi bit which was forced by PRINT and then restoring it if it had been present before PRINTing For example if we are transmitting a sequence of numbers by PRINT CHR X we first POKE 6 X then use the output hooks CSW at 36 37 to subject CHR X to the following bef
127. e it in the column The knowledgeable user should watch for cases where a disk gains special significance because of a file already on it Sometimes the same disk that has the document on it is important Other times it is the disk that has the applica tion on it Most commonly the disk that has the System file on it has special significance Further one disk is always the default disk This is the one that first comes up when you get an Open or Close dialog You can change the default disk and possibly alter the behavior of an application by selecting Open or Close from the menu pushing the Drive button until your desired disk appears and then Canceling out of the dialog There are also desk accessories such as DiskInfo which allow you to change your default disk There is no way to predict how long a given disk remains the default The application can change it behind your back when you re not looking In the course of their work appli cations have to reference files you might not think about e g the Imagewriter or LaserWriter file a k a the Printing Resource the Spool file used for holding temporarily print paper images the Scrapbook and so on Some applica tions are very rigid about which disks they look at when 54 October 1985 Mac Section trying to find or create files and sometimes they change the default while trying All of this is not to evade the question Studying the detailed behavi
128. eceived our first bills as CI So now those of you who are CompuServe subscribers can send me EasyPlex electronic mail My CIS ID is 72437 3267 I m still pretty much floundering around using up lots of connect time in MAUG and the EasyPlex system but my initial impressions of CompuServe are fantastic wonderful incredible expensive By the way I still love my modem the Prometheus ProModem 1200 However I now hate the software it came with ProCom M I use Red Ryder 6 0C a beta test version a freeware program written by Scott Watson Red Ryder is simply wonderful For a beta test version there are very few bugs none of them serious It has macros automated procedures DEC VT 100 emulation and great documentation although it does have its share of spelling errors I m now accepting donations for the Buy Scott a Copy of Hayden Fund If you have a Macintosh and use modem do yourself a favor and get Red Ryder it s worth triple the 40 price tag And another thing Do send in the payment required by freeware authors if you don t erase the disk with the program on it These people have spent lots of time on their products and they deserve a return on their investments espe cially when the program is of the quality of Scott Watson s Red Ryder PR dept I got a letter in the mail the other day from Microsoft Corporation out in Bellevue The letter simply thanked me for my comments on the product r
129. egistration card Id mailed in after buying MS BASIC It was personally addressed Dear Mr Klugewicz and hand signed I am annoyed with Microsoft for many reasons beginning with copy protection and ending with upgrade policy However I want to commend Microsoft for taking the time to at least scan the comments on the registration cards Policies such as this can only help them keep in touch with the needs and desires of their customers I just wish I could remember what I wrote on my card More on mail You can now send me mail two ways by regular United States Postal Service first class mail or by CompuServe s EasyPlex electronic mail Both my USPS mailing address and my CIS ID number are in the box at the end of this column Because of editorial deadlines there is usually a delay of one month one Journal issue between my receiving mail and its being published in this column If you want a prompt reply please say so in your letter I guarantee that I will answer within a week I won t guarantee that I ll reply by EasyPlex if you send me E mail though remember I m on a student budget You can write about most anything the software you hate most the computer you love most the contd on pg 41 Washington Apple Pi THE WORDSTAR STARCARD PACKAGE REVIEWED by Joe England You may have noticed the ads placed in several computer magazines by a mail order company named Broadreach Marketing They offer a package consisting of
130. eived little attention and demonstrations were done on prototypes Sadler says that they are shipping as many as they can produce His market strategy is a sort of guerrilla warfare in corporate America In essence it is a way to slip a Mac into an office with large MS DOS files and investment in MS DOS software Dayna claims virtually complete compatibility with the IBM there I said it world Also there is a trend towards government contracts specifying MS DOS which I vigorously oppose but that could be the subject of an entire column Sadler noted that John Sculley President of Apple and other top officials had just received a unit and were impressed Comments were heard such as Mac Charlie makes the Mac look like a real machine or I understand that Apple is a third party developer for MacCharlie Conclusion MacExpo I can t leave MacExpo without relating a story According to Jean Louis Gassee Apple s Director of New Products Guy Kawasaki Apple s Software Czar received a call from Hewlett Packard It seems that the Dreams of the Phoenix Washington Apple Pi Your Mac s 7 b too long v You just found the right hard Accommodating 10 MB of for Do Your MAC A Favor Go disk subsystem for your MAC Check out the Paradise MAC 10 Easy To Look At Beauty isn t everything but most hard disk MAC drives will scare your computer to death in the morning The MAC 10 is artfully engineered to comple ment the
131. ekick Raymond Hobbs Word Marty Milrod Data Bases dBase II Paul Bublitz John Staples dBase II amp Raymond Hobbs Jim Kellock day n Raesly DB Master Dave Einhom Data Perfect Leon Raesly Data Factory Bob Schmidt General Manager Normand Bernache Leon Raesly List Handler Jon Vaupel PFS Bill Etue Ginny Spevak Profile Bary Fox vickFile Il JJ Finkelstein isiPlot Lee Raesl Games Apple Charles Hall Games Mac Ron Wartow 8 703 527 2704 301 498 6074 008 672 1721 Hard Disks Corvus amp Omninet Sider Fox Languages A Applesoft I Integer P Pascal MzMachine le listed are sers of the Jaxon Brown 50 3283 Tom Vier ABBS Gon 2605 3 820 5206 703 524 0937 301 350 3283 301 460 0754 eter Combes 301 251 6369 301 460 0754 Al Jeff Dillon 301 422 6458 01 951 5294 A Richard Langston 301 869 7466 703 550 9064 A Mark Pankin 703 524 0937 703 354 4837 Richard Untied 609 596 8816 301 969 1990 John Love 703 569 2294 703 820 5206 M Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 P Donn Hoffman 412 578 8905 02 546 7270 Forth Bruce Field 301 340 7038 229 2578 LISP Fred Naef 703 471 1479 672 1721 MS Basic Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 527 2704 Math OR A pins Mark Pankin 703 524 0937 944 2150 Monitor RG John Day 301 672 1721 820 5206 Operating Systems 229 257 Apple Richard Langston 301 869 7466 867 7463 John Love 703 569 2294 951 5294 Richard Untied 609 596 8816 953 1949 CP M
132. erence as it becomes available Periodic news letters of ENA Netweaver are posted on the NOVAPPLE BBS 703 527 4328 and Barry Fox s BBS The Connection 703 820 6261 Discussions concerning all aspects of tele communications take place in the TELECOM SIG which meets immediately following our monthly general meetings d Washington Apple Pi J A INCH DISKETTES amp STORAGE e 55 00 BOX OF 10 10 DISK STORAGE BOX 9 36 DISK STORAGE BOX 51 4 INCH DISKETTES amp STORAGE SS DD BOX OF 10 55 00 PAK OF 25 SS DD CASE OF 100 SS DD CARTON OF 500 2 NOTCH DS DD 10 11 00 2 NOTCH DS OD OF 25 26 50 2 NOTCHDSDD CASE OF 100 103 00 10 DISKETTE CASES 2 50 EACH 5 for 11 00 e 70 DISK CASE 140 DISKETTE LOCKING WOOD FILE CABINET PRINTERS PANASONIC P1090 PANASONIC P1091 CITIZEN MSP 10 160 CPS PANASONIC P1092 e CITIZEN MSP 15 WIDE CITIZEN MSP 20 200 CPS e SILVER REED 500 LQ AJ 831 w KEYBOARD LQ TOSHIBA P1340 DOTAETTER PRINTER ACCESSORIES e 2500 SHEETS OF PAPER STANDARD PARALLEL INTERFACE e GRAPHICS PARALLEL M INTERFACE CARD FINGERPRINT PUSH BUTTON GRAPHICS CARD 109 00 MICROFAZER BUFFER 149 00 PRINTER STAND SWITCH BOX 3 PARALLEL OR 3 SERIAL PORTS UNIVERSAL SWITCH BOX FLOPPY DISK DRIVES FOURTH DIMENSION MITAC DISTAR MONITORS 12 INCH GREEN AMBER 89 00 AVT AMERIC
133. es Story Tree gg USA ora Sentences es of Discover Math Man v n5uo2520 8 B 9 B 9 9 P 9 26100 COPY II PLUS for II IIe IIc 28 00 COFY II MAC 28 00 DAVID DOS II 52 00 DOLLARS amp SENSE for 105 00 THE NEWSROOM 55 00 This ad is written month cuss computer intricasies but are scarce advance Since prices are subject opportunities are also likely ties of friendship Go for it to change please call for current members Pricing We attempt to meet all Alice Allen 890 8992 Silver Spring advertised prices scutes Come WAP COMPUTER DEN Ltd Amy Billingsley 585 5357 Silver Spring Apple Writer 11715 MILL ROAD A Datla 384 8729 Silver Spring SILVER SD BLAME 20902 Mark Pankin 524 0937 Arlington Karen Rall 992 9378 Columbia Call to or d er Sunday Thursda D ALM F M deii A Crystal City shipping October 1985 7 Washington Apple Pi WA P H OTL For Use by WAP Members Only Have a VOLU Hotline are reminded that calls regarding commercial software packages sho not call about copied software for which you have no documentation blem The following club members have agreed to help other members PLEASE keep in mind that the EERS Respect all telephone restrictions where listed and no calls after 10 00
134. etails of the meeting will be provided subsequently but I can say that many constructive suggestions were made and one or two may lead to far reaching improvements in the Pi We thank you one and all for taking four hours off on a Saturday infinitely better suited for beaching or biking to discuss the future of our group October 1985 3 PRESIDENT S CORNER by Tom Warrick The 1985 Apple User Group Conference at Apple Computer s offices in Cupertino is reported elsewhere in this issue The fourth Saturday Washington Apple Pi meetings may be run out of a suitcase for the next few months The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences USUHS which has been kind enough in the past to let us make use of their fine facility will be using their auditorium on the fourth Saturdays of October and November As a result the place of the main WAP meetings during those months has been changed The October 26 meeting will be held at Northwood High School 919 University Blvd West Silver Spring See map elsewhere in this issue The meeting on November 23 will be held at Walt Whitman High School 7100 Whittier Bivd Bethesda just off River Road ing One of the most frequently mentioned items many members have suggested that WAP buy is a good color video projector that would work with both the Apple and the Mac The Executive Board will be voting at its October 9 meeting 7 30 p m at the office whether to recommend to t
135. ew York file Now move your pointer back to the installed section and select all of the New York font sizes Copy them into the New York file Now remove them from the installed section Quit the Font Mover You ll now see the New York file on your disk again but now it ll be filled with all the New York fonts and only the New York fonts To continue creating new fonts files for each of the available fonts simply duplicate your Empty Fonts file Rename the duplicate giving it the name of the next font you want to break out of the fat file let s say you call the next one Geneva Then open the new Geneva file and copy all the Geneva fonts from the installed section into your new Geneva file Remember to always remove the copied font from the installed section each time you do this operation That will keep your disk empty enough to continue working You needn t use the names of individual fonts for your new files by the way You might choose to organize them differently For instance you might decide to organize all fonts by size instead of typestyle So you d create a 9 point file and a 12 point file and so on Or you could create a file of Fancy Fonts containing let s say London and v Venice or Writing Fonts containing New York and Geneva Repeat the process for all the fonts or groups of fonts you want to have filed separately Once you ve got them all separated make yo
136. ey arranged and the success of the Conference was in no small part due to their efforts Finally I must pass on to you some observations about Apple culture Apple is a small very close knit organiza tion Apple has so few employees for a company its size that it ranks first among the Fortune 500 in revenues per employee It compensates for this in part by hiring only the best In addition its people are very supportive and encouraging of each other A typical example At the end of one meeting Chris Espinosa Manager of Developer Support and Ellen Nold Manager of Sales Support Programs hugged each other in congratulations for having chaired a good meeting There was also a strong but gentle push toward the users groups representatives arriving at a consensus even though given the diverse nature of the groups represented such a consensus could only be on the broadest of generalities In addition several people remarked that Apple was like a Peyton Place alas for all you gossip columnists reading this they did not elaborate All of this confirms that Apple Computer Inc is in many respects a small insular community This gives the company one of its greatest strengths the ability to take a relatively small number of people make enormous professional and personal demands on them and still have them turn out work of incredible quality This attitude is in part Steve Jobs legacy to the company There is however another sid
137. f RAM and an alphanumeric display Besides its the best looking modem around Its also a conversation piece everybody around here keeps asking me what it is The end and other misleading statements Next month promises to hold many surprises both from Apple and elsewhere mainly concerning the Mac owners don t despair The guy across the hall has a e so look for some hardware and software comments For lack of anything further to say Ciao d October 1985 41 DOWNLOADING CUSTOM CHARACTERS INTO THE APPLE IMAGEWRITER by Chester H Page Problem 1 The Imagewriter manual tells what sequence to send to the printer to download a custom designed character but not HOW to send it If you send with an Applesoft PRINT all down loaded characters get bottom lines added like underlining on the line and can be called only by ESC not by ESC as expected Problem 2 Even if Problem 1 is solved certain patterns wreck the downloading Any pattern that contains a column of dots described by the number 9 or 137 is interpreted by the printer interface card as a Ctrl I which is the lead in character for various commands Problem 3 Problems 1 and 2 can be avoided by using Apple s Imagewriter Tool Kit disk to load a set of subscripts and superscripts The code ESC is used for all the calls in this set of characters more on this point later In the set incorporated in the Tool Kit A Z are used to call A Z as subscripts an
138. f User Education Bill Watson Hardware Project Manager Bud Tribble Software Product Engineering Manager and others Randy opened with a description of Apple s product development process Basically he said Apple takes a lot of ideas for products and then builds a few prototypes Those prototypes are reviewed Washington Apple Pi and evaluated during which time they may be modified or discarded altogether Ultimately only a very few products actually get shipped This process is not unique to Apple In the new Apple he said more products are likely to make it through the prototype stage which means that it will be impossible to know during the development stage which products actually will be shipped Although he did not say it one should take this to mean that rumors that Alan Kay has such and such on his desk do not necessarily mean that it will ever be shipped Several of us asked about product development in the Apple line and Randy said that Apple was pouring as much R amp D into the as into the Mac and that Apple develop ment was not now being held back He said that Apple s product development philosophy was to work to improve the power of its products rather than to work to reduce prices Randy and his people then asked the groups representatives for suggestions and ideas for the future Apple products Among the suggestions made were Open architecture Apple should set and adhere to standards that th
139. fail valves close at the wrong place A clock display reminds you that this is a real time simulation Several screens show the dam power gene rators capacitors status panel and financial report Try it a while You may wish to tinker with the program which is written in Basic My preference is that the quit command is not one that can accidentally be hit while trying an adjacent key This is a public version of some of the 3 mile Island action without radioactivity Skywriter trails smoke from a plane flown by you Set messages trace the planes path or whatever Snoopy would be proud of you Space Gorn is a text adventure series aboard a space ship is a combination of alligator and dinosaur Defeat or be dessert Trace your way through the compart ments finding artifacts to aid the conquest Star Wars IV puts you in a fighter protecting civiliza tion Fire at the rascals and still more arrive Black Jack is the game with doubling down splits in surance bets and all Bet without a trip to Atlantic city No risk to the pocketbook This and the slots are part of the contd October 1985 77 sino Check the index for the rest of the games on other disks Finally a Lunar Lander Hit the target but not too hard Success is measured in terms of feet per second at touchdown The following new disks have been added to the SigMac Library Disk descriptions have been supplied by Tony Anderson and Dave Weikert Sig
140. gister for a new password by calling via modem the WAP main board at 986 8085 Think of this as the computer equivalent of renovating the Cabin John Bridge traffic may move more slowly for a while but the end product will be well worth it On a related subject there has been some discussion on the BBS s about when SYSOPs should delete messages because of their content As a majority of our members have joined since the Executive Board last considered the issue three years ago it may be worthwhile to re state current WAP policy on the subject With regard to public messages the SYSOPs have the authority to delete a message that is illegal vulgar abusive or commercial A message is commercial if it offers to sell or solicits offers to buy property casual sales of personal property however are not commercial WAP has other channels for getting commercial messages to members such as advertising in the Journal or in the commercial section of the Classifieds BBS With regard to private messages SYSOPs do not make a point of scrutinizing other people s mail If they notice or happen to come across a message that is illegal or commercial however they have the authority to delete it In all cases discretion must be left to the SYSOPs of the various boards or systems In those rare cases and they are very rare indeed where a message has to be deleted the person who posted it should feel free to raise the matter in tum with the WAP Bulleti
141. grade or a 1 megabyte upgrade with No loss of usc FREE Mac Memory Disc No shipping your immediate Availability 120 day warranty 9 Big Savings Dealer Inquiries Welcome Place Your Credit Card Order By Phone Call Us We ll Ship C O D 213 450 2929 VOAD SYSTEMS 3304 Pico Boulevard Santa Monica CA 90405 m MacINTOSH is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc ac Momory Disk is a trademark of Assimilation Process 2 October 1985 Washington Apple Pi OFFICERS amp STAFF President Tom Warrick 301 656 4389 Vice Pres Pro Adrien Youell 301 951 0838 Vice Pres SIGs Bruce Field 301 340 7038 Treasurer Edward a Myon 703 759 5479 Secretary Peter Com 301 251 6369 Directors J T Tom DeMay Jr 301 779 4632 Raymond Hobbs 301 490 7484 Bob Platt 806 353 9723 Leon ed 301 460 0754 Jay Thal 202 244 3649 John Voglewede 301 460 3047 Rich Wasserstrom Past President David Morganstein 301 972 4263 Editor Bemie Urban 01 229 3458 Associate Editor Genevie Urban 1 229 3458 Journal Staff Advertising Scott Mirman 301 977 3679 Frank Street 1 493 5643 Store Distrbtn Raymond Hobbs 1 490 7484 Columnists pane 7 Apple Alexander 301 474 5310 Regina Litman 301 585 0044 ADD gt Il Charlene Ryan 703 836 0463 DisabledSIG Jay Thal 202 244 3649 EDSIG Peter Combes 301 251 6369 LISA SIG John Da 301 672 1721 SigMac Brooks Leffler 301 565 0445 Pascal
142. gramming concepts It is prevented from dead ending ton contd on pg 47 Washington Apple Pi ULTIMA III A Review by Richard Grant It s hard not to admire a piece of work whether it s a novel a cathedral or as in the present case a role playing game that shows such meticulous craftsmanship as Ultima Written originally for the Apple by Lord British who endorses his checks under the name of Richard Garriott the game was converted for the Macintosh by James Van Artsdalen and is distributed by Origin Systems Inc It was the Macintosh version of the game that I was given by GAMESIG chairman Ronald Wartow with the warning I probably shouldn t give you this to review since you re new to this kind of thing Well I was and I wasn t Ultima III which is certainly a very difficult game to master was my first experience of a genre that describes itself as real time fantasy role playing On the other hand I write fantasy stories for a living I ve read The Lord of the Rings and I m passingly familiar with the rules of D amp D Ultima I found is so true to the spirit of that particular fantasy tradition that despite my inexperience I was able rather quickly to develop a feel for the game The job that lies before you when you take up the Ultima quest is a formidable one The fabled land of Sosaria benign ly presided over by Lord British himself has been beset by an Evil so vile that it dare not speak it
143. group coming out on a regular basis and is well worth the money Moore offers both commercial and public domain software for sale by the way See the July 1985 WAP Journal for more details on what s available At this point I was all ready to tell you about the Open Apple Gazette Billed as the Oldest Publication it has not been published for quite some time The publisher Don Norris told me in mid August that the nine back issues of the magazine could still be obtained for 30 00 However his most recent San Francisco phone number has been disconnected and I have been unable to reach him at the forwarding address in Missouri During a phone conversation Norris the former President of the Business Apple Group which was affiliated I m told at one time with the defunct Original Apple er s group told me he was planning to begin publishing a new magazine in two to three months He said at the time it would cost 45 00 per year published quarterly Norris also had his own consulting firm called the lli Support Service which offered help to Apple users on fee basis At this point I cannot recommend that you send Norris any money for either the back issues or a subscription until more information is forthcoming about his address and plans 12 October 1985 I have decided not to print the current information because it can not be confirmed OK OK it s either Box 813 San Francisco CA 94101 or 512 South Hanley S
144. he membership that we buy a video projector in the 16 000 to 20 000 range Everyone is welcome to attend and participate as usual whether you were ever formally elected or not Under WAP bylaws however an expenditure this large must be approved by the membership at the general i e fourth Saturday meeting The next general meeting will be on October 26 The program will be on telecommunications and should be of interest to everyone Mac and Apple 11 own ers alike Please come to the meeting and cast your vote on this very important item The main December meeting will be on the third Saturday December 21 at USUHS Everyone regardless of what type of computer you own should come to this one because in keeping with Apple Pi tradition it will be a garage sale Everyone is invited to bring items that you no longer want including money but you don t have to sell or buy anything to have a good time Many of us have managed to do all of our holiday shopping at this event These meetings are usually a lot of fun especially the distress auction at the end of the sale Please note that USUHS regulations require that sales at the garage sale be by individuals only not by businesses Although the main meeting will be living out of a suitcase for the next few months the Mac meetings will only be changing rooms In October featuring hard disks and the Mac office and December to be announced we may have a demonstration of
145. he Bay area newspapers reported that Apple had bowed to pressure from Microsoft not to release MacBasic The report which had been circulating as rumor for weeks before the conference said that the ten year license for Applesoft BASIC which Microsoft had originally developed was up for renewal in 1988 and that one of Microsoft s conditions for renewal was an agreement by Apple that it would not release MacBasic which was behind schedule and over budget anyway Guy confirmed that Apple has no plans present or future to publish MacBasic and would not let users groups distribute it either When asked whether Apple would enforce its copyright on MacBasic he announced that he was going to make Apple history and admit that this was a question to which he didn t know the answer A number of users groups including WAP asked for permission to license for distribution to members the DOS 3 3 System Master disk including utilities like FID and COPYA This subject was also discussed with several groups within Apple including Marketing and Legal departments and there is hope that something can be done on this in the next few months At the end of the session Guy generously gave to each of the groups present a box containing virtually every Apple Washington Apple Pi software product for the Mac a copy of Borland s Sidekick after playing with it I went out and bought a copy I hope Borland gives you a commission Guy Through the Looking
146. he results of the previous month s voting could be included in the column As the result of a majority vote the suggestion or idea would at least have to be taken up by the board of directors at their next meeting I don t see how the votes could be given any more weight without causing disorganization or budget shredding However I believe that the leadership would give any very popular idea the amount of attention it deserves Well that s my suggestion Would it work I think it would be interesting to find out 31 FREDERICK APPLE CORE y A SLICE OF THE WASHINGTON APPLE PI OFFICERS amp CHAIRMEN President Lynn R Trusal Vice President Tony Svajlenka Secretary Treasurer Bruce Taylor Librarian Scott Galbraith Program Chairman John Lee Membership Chairman Randy Pasley Newsletter Chairman Lynn R Trusal Newsletter Editor Kathy Kenyon SIG MAC Chairman Lynn R Trusal The Frederick Apple Core meets the second Thursday of each month in the large conference room of the U S Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases Ft Detrick Frederick MD 21701 5011 at 7 30 PM Upcoming Programs October 10 Computers as home controllers November 14 Cracker Barrel BBS deomonstration HOTLINE MEMBERS Lynn R Trusal 301 845 2651 Randy Pasley 301 695 9416 Kurt Holter 301 663 4199 Bruce Taylor 301 371 8181 Scott Galbraith 301 865 3035 The above members of the Frederick Apple
147. hem to become som what contd Washington Apple Pi restricted in access On most boards a prospective USER must furnish name address and telephone number to the SYSOP and wait for a password to be assigned before complete system access is allowed Many boards will not allow any access at all until the information has been vali dated and a password has been mailed to the USER Most boards now provide services other than simply an ability to post and read bulletins At a minimum there will usually be multiple subject specific sections on the BBS with access to sub sections limited to given security levels assigned accord ing to a given USER s interests computer type and or sub scriber contributor status Many boards now also provide private electronic mail E MAIL ability among the USERS as well as public domain and freeware software for downloading Within the Washington D C and Baltimore MD urban suburban areas there are literally hundreds of BBS s Most are provided by computer user groups or are partially supported by user groups and subscriptions The vast majority of BBS s are machine specific as far as topics and online information are concerned however many are run to support non computer related interests Good examples of such are the Family Historians BBS 703 978 7561 which is dedicated to genealogy the Grateful Dead BBS 717 334 8680 which is devoted to information relative to that music group and the
148. hen you re finished with the headline remove the font from the System File leaving yourself more space to create other parts of your document One word of caution With MacPaint you need only have a font actually on the same disk while you re creating your headline MacPaint will print the headline later without the font in the System File But in MacWrite the Imagewriter needs the font in System File while printing So you can t remove it until you ve printed your document If you re working with a 512K Mac or a two drive system you may not need to do this chore You can keep fonts on one disk while keeping working documents and applications on the other But I find it handy to locate my fonts having separated them and the Mac loads fonts into its memory in less time if it doesn t have to load the entire range of fonts just to make one addition to a System File Now you ve probably heard more about fonts than you can stand for awhile so we ll turn to other topics in the next MacNovice column By the way if you have any suggestions for future columns or if you have questions about how to use your new Mac feel free to pass me your comments suggestions or criticisms for this column through the Washington Apple Pi Office in writing please What s YOUR MaclNovice Interest October 1985 59 REVIEW CORNER MacWorld Exposition II Almost 300 exhibitors listed and over 15 000 attendees were at the recent Boston MacWorld
149. how to do this 2 Model 100 s Telcom program does not send linefeeds after a carriage return unless you specify save to command of text or BASIC and specify COM stat This mode does not request width so you must be sure carriage returns occur as often as receiving word processing program requires 3 Apple to Model 100 a Most word processing programs for the Apple which allow you to set the output slot to modem rather than printer can be set to provide line feeds after carriage returns as the text is transferred Best done at 300 baud unless software offers XON XOFF option At faster speeds 4 to 5 characters per paragraph are lost unless XON XOFF used or the soft ware allows adding of nulls This is true for most communi cations and word processing software b Sending file from Apple Disk to Model 100 does not work well at the higher baud rates as the Apple cannot service an interrupt XOFF while accessing disk as a result text is lost Therefore text should be sent from memory use M as the file name with AE Pro 4 A useful public domain program XMODEM is avail able for the Model 100 from the Model 100 SIG on Compuserve XMODEM will check transmissions for errors and retransmit if any errors are detected XMODEM protocol is compatible with AE Pro protocol mode with MODEM 7 under CP M and many other communications packages The use of protocol mode will also solve the XOFF interrupt and character dropping problems men
150. iate amount to USUS Fall Meeting Registration P O Box 3277 Silver Spring MD 20901 Please make checks payable to USUS Inc Advance registrations must be received by October 15 The Omni International Hotel is located at 101 West Fayette Street in Baltimore s Inner Harbor area For any of you who plan to stay at the hotel there are special room rates on a space available basis by the time this is published Tell the Omni that you are attending the USUS meeting and also indicate this with your meeting registration I have been to several USUS meetings around the country and have found them to be both enjoyable and informative Attendees are a mix ranging from super expert to novice and a great deal of informal discussion and assistance takes place The national meeting held in Washington two years ago was well attended and resulted in the formation of a USUS Local Users Group here which is still going strong A LUG Lunch will also be held this time If you have any further questions about the meeting please contact me by phone at 301 445 1583 or on CompuServe at 73075 1171 I hope all of WAP s Pascal users will attend 4 LETTER THE EDITOR From Adrien Youell VP Programs Dear Editor Re Glen Echo Project Glen Echo is ripe for development and Washington Apple Pi should lead the field for acquisition of parts of Glen Echo as a Computer Arts Center Most of our members may not be aware that Bernie Urban ha
151. icard The Applicard CP M TPA transient program area or free memory is larger than the TPA provided by 60k Softcard CP M The Applicard comes with 64k of fast RAM built in Since it doesn t have to deal with a 16k card it doesn t have to do any bank switching and this allows for a larger TPA and a more standard implementation of CP M Several public domain programs that wouldn t run on the Softcard seem to work fine with the Applicard If you don t have an 80 column card the Applicard can use Apple graphics to give you 70 columns However use of an 80 column card is far preferable to this My old Videx Videoterm works well with the Applicard There are a number of other reasons why I prefer the Applicard to the Softcard Applicard CP M uses part of the Apple motherboard RAM as a place to store drivers The rest is used as a good sized print buffer about 35k depending how you configure CP M With the addition of an optional piggy Washington Apple Pi back board the amount of RAM on the Applicard can be extended to 192K but make sure you have a healthy power supply Under Softcard CP M if you do a warm boot with a data disk no CP M system on it in drive A you get a hung system Not so under Applicard CP M Another nice feature of Applicard CP M is the ability to re boot the system at any time without the need of BOOT COM Amazingly both the Applicard and the Softcard can reside in the same Apple at the same time When Softc
152. ide featuring Epson Gemini A non programmers guide to DOS 3 3 amp ProDOS for Ap buying using and understand Ist Course Step by step in ple J and c Highly ing the dot matrix printer At structions for the basic and recommended and widely used last a book that explains how 8023 advanced procedures in schools offices and to use a dot matrix printer not INE 3131 04 0 12 95 2nd Course Printing and homes Now in 4th printing program one f formatting procedures ISBN 0 913131 08 3 9 95 a 1 ic any printer code with a single keystroke for the Epson Gemini Okidata Apple NEC 8023 or Prowriter Works with ALL versions of Apple Writer DOS 3 3 amp ProDOS for Ap ple and c Manual explains p 2nd Course Many pro MINUTE cedures explained that are not featured P ag found original manuals 3rd Course Quick tutorial Program for File Report Graph Profiles 4th Course Quick guide with all procedures presented step by step All versions including ProDOS MINUTE MANUAL Sth Course PFS Write basic NUL code patch for Apple FOR and advanced procedures ex GLOSSARY DISK Writer e only DOS 3 3 PFS plained step by step Exten FOR Use your printers foreign and sive discussion of printing APPLE WRITER alternate characters Use the Ist Course Each
153. ing using such application programs whatever the brand of software E Other important DOS commands LOAD RUN LOCK UNLOCK DELETE BRUN F Making copies of disks using the ProDOS formatter DOS COPYA what are copy protected disks Session 2 How To Use Your Apple Software A Initializing a disk what it does 143 Kbytes of information different versions of DOS 3 2 3 3 ProDOS B Introduction to ProDOS pathnames smart run CONVERT C Using ProDOS Filer and DOS FID to copy files D Disk recovery programs E Selected programs from the New Members Disk Session 3 Popular Applications for Your Apple A Word processing using Appleworks entering and correcting text search and replace using special printer features underline boldface condensed etc how a Spelling checker works Session 1 Welcome to the World of Apple B Spreadsheets A Overview of a Computer entering numbers text and formulas CPU memory input and output compound interest a simple example B Using floppy disks using the Clipboard care and handling C Data base management Filing programs C Running an Application Program setting up a mailing list booting a disk Ctrl Open Apple Reset D Communications D CATALOG what s on this disk hardware requirements modems the file name software requirements locked or unlocked Bulletin board systems BBS file types A I B T E What is BASIC or why should I become a file size programmer 76 Octobe
154. ing your program It is absolutely essential that no spaces appear between the word Code and the closing bracket Once you compile Listing 2 run the Set Options utility program and select the name of your code file say Tester Code Make sure that the RunTime and p Machine files are set to the correct disk Next in the first empty box labelled Library Files type FilePack Code This will cause the implementa tion part of unit FilePack to be added to your program whenever it is run To execute Listing 2 double click on the Tester Code icon not the FilePack Code icon Next time I will cover converting an Apple Pascal program to MacAdvantage by making use of FilePack contd hes es ee es Dese uu n ses es ses esses Multiply Your Mac Now 915 UPGRADE 259 for overnight turnaround includes 90 Day warranty on your CPU board 40 for additional 1 warranty Free ram disk program CALL FOR OUR GROUP RATE UPGRADE MonsterMac Available NOW 749 FutureVest Computers Your one stop for all your Macintosh needs software hardware and services 20223 NYC 10025 212 222 1607 Habadisk 299 Tecmar MacDrive 51 199 Thunderscan 184 Microsoft Word 117 Microsoft EXCEL 259 Volksmodem 12 300 1200 201 MacCare 150 a year 3 8 colors ColorCopies one pass PSs NEC s Color Pin
155. ion of the product resolved this problem Therefore I am authorizing a defective exchange of your software to version 3 33 Thank you for sending us a copy of your patch material Readers may be interested in the apparent availability of the upgrade to Version 3 33 6 View from Durham contd from pg 38 Situation in the Middle East just checking to see if you re still with me All I ask is that technical questions be directed to the Q amp A authors Bruce Field for Apple and and Jonathan Hardis for the Mac You can still ask me technical questions if you want to but I ll probably just end up sending them to Bruce or Jonathan anyhow You can also send me messages on the area BBS s but as I m out of town and poor can t guarantee that I ll be able to call in and retrieve them The first two methods are safer Software of the month Richard Grants Saraband of Lost Time Yeah I know it s a book not a program But hey it s softcover right This is a superb science fiction novel set in the distant future I won t say much about it except that all of you should read it even if you don t normally like science fiction this is not your typical SF Story At present it s in the running for a Nebula award if you don t know what that is just look impressed Hardware of the month The Prometheus ProModem 1200 The more I use it the more I like it It s fully Hayes compatible and it can be expanded by adding lots o
156. ird party developers can follow Randy said that Apple was interested in adhering to standards except where substantial benefits were to be had Build in a clock calendar Use modular telephone company connectors for Apple Talk rather than the hard to find custom connectors now used Allow people with older Apples like the a way to get the benefits of software written for newer Apples like the enhanced e by encouraging third parties to develop add on boards to duplicate the increased power of the newer models Guy Kawasaki said that one subject hotly debated within Apple is whether a mouse should be bundled into the even if it means adding 80 or 90 to the retail price The con sensus of the groups representatives was that it should because it would mean easier to use software Guy seemed pleased at this draw from that what you may It was apparent that the Apple people were taking these suggestions very seriously Gone they said was the day in which Apple would let technology drive product design Apple was now going to take better account of consumers wants in determining what features the next generation of Apple computers would have After lunch the users groups representatives met to discuss the recommendations we would make to Apple management We were assisted in this by three Apple employees Anne Seip Jim Hoyt and Harlan Felt who served as reality checks on some of the more ambitious and unreali
157. itial investment unless it has a huge USER base running a BBS is not a get rich quick program So if you use a BBS don t abuse it In most geographic areas BBS SYSOPS are forming loose associations or groups for mutual protection and assistance USERS who abuse their privileges or the rules of any one BBS should expect to be denied usage of all BBS s in the area We all know that it is close to impossible to create an accessible computer system which can t be crashed Therefore those who run around crashing BBS s and damaging files which represent days or weeks worth of indivi dual work are proving nothing but their own immaturity Well you re probably wondering about my qualifications for writing this article I must confess that I am a SYSOP most of you probably guessed that I am the SYSOP for the Cracker Barrel BBS which is located in Frederick County MD and is reachable at 301 662 3131 The system is partially supported by subscription 10 year but most of it is accessible to non subscribers Subscribers get a longer online time limit no limit to calls per day downloads per call and a few other niceties There are areas of the system which are only accessible to WAP FAC members The system is not machine or subject specific and everyone who enjoys using a good BBS is invited to call and try out the system I do allow limited access to guests and non validated users However for full access you will need to complete a user
158. itman From WP4621 to ALL 06 29 Ultima III This monster big bang for buck fantasy role E game is now out for the Macintosh I attended Origins National Adventure Gaming Show in Balto yesterday For those of you with other Apples Richard Garriott aka Lord British pen gave me a 1 hour demo of Ultima IV which has anxiously awaited for two years Ron W From WP4621 to WP5572 06 29 Congratulations Richard I assume that was ied winning the second prize in the Filevision contest published in the Spring issue of Filevision Magazine If so go to subject line of message From WP5572 to WP4621 06 30 Thank You Thanks Ron Besides shipping me an Apple 1200 modem Filevision paid me to write that article for their magazine and in printing it the publicieed my recent science fiction novel SARABAND OF LOST TIME Actually I m doing the same thing now though less subtly By the way your I ve been a few days message on Terry s board was ariot Richard Grant From WAP538 to ALL 06 29 WAP Board Of the 15 people on the WAP board of directors I think 10 own Macintoshes A smaller number own II s Tom Warrick From WP6861 to ALL 07 01 Red Ryder 6 Beta Does Red Ryder 6 support VT 100 emulation Most of my comms are to where a VAX resides and VT 100 is a must Thanks Dave From WP5099 to WP6861 07 02 RR 6 amp VT 100 Yes I ve never used that mode so don t know if the RR 6 implementation is any good but it lo
159. l Omnis Multiuser DBase The Keeper File Servers Bernoulli 10 10 File Server Shady Grove Rd 70 Ribbons Imagewriter 3 1 2 Sony 10 box Call Us At 301 MacBorrtrowM The MacBottom addresses most of the needs and corrects most of the grief of other Macintosh hard media It offers 10 7 megs of Storage a 68008 proccessor which controls Printer Spooling automatic turn on Desk Accesory volume mounting portability 516 ruggedness and superb reliability It hooks up to either of the serial ports amp gives you a 422 back so you never run out of ports Come test drive the drive that Is stirring all the excitement MacBottom Sale Pricedi Mac XL amp Lisa Specials We want to thank Lisa ownors who have made MacComar ono thoir promior sources of HW amp SW Wo shall continuo to support tho XL amp Lisa and you informod of new product introductions XL SERVE Dynamic Partitioning printer spooling Appletalk network smart backup 174 95 AST Ramstack takes you to 2 Megs eg XL can now use Switcher and 512 progs increases the spooling and Cache space in XL serve 849 95 Software Is Coming 49 95 Concertware 64 95 MacNifty Stereo System 69 95 Professional Composer 339 95 Call about all thenew MIDI hardware amp software becoming available presently for the MAC and our MIDI Corner New At MacCorner Crunch Friendly Power spreadsheet 189 95 Excel Intg WorkSheet DBase Charts 269 70 Fo
160. le to have the interface card generate the line feed Check the small DIP switches inside the printer the one labelled SW1 should have the eighth switch open for no extra line feeds This is often called Automatic Line Feed or Auto Line Feed amp October 1985 47 USUS NATIONAL MEETING TO BE HELD IN BALTIMORE by Michael Hartman The Fall 1985 national meeting of the UCSD p System User s Society USUS will be held in Baltimore at the Omni International Hotel on Friday October 25 through Sunday October 27 USUS is an organization of users of the UCSD Pascal system and its derivatives including Apple and Pascal and the Mac Advantage UCSD Pascal compiler The theme of the meeting is A Workshop on the UCSD p System Family and it will include technical presentations tutorials workshops Q amp A sessions hardware and software demonstrations and SIG meetings Everyone with an interest in UCSD Pascal is welcome to attend you do not have to be a USUS member Several of the meeting sessions will be Apple specific and many of the general ones will be of inter est to Apple users nearly half of USUS s members own Apple computers Other computers which the UCSD p System runs on include the Stride Sage line IBM PC and TI 99 4A The following is a partial list of the scheduled sessions Technical Presentations Pascal Data Base Sytems by Tom Swan author of several books on Apple Pascal UNITs and Modular Programming b
161. m Durham by Chris Klugewicz Chris Klugewicz P O 22171 Duke Station Durham NC 27706 Mail or the lack thereof New Micros and Some Other Stuff CIS 72437 5267 Hello from Duke and Durham Freshman Orientation is finally over and I can start getting my own act together The weather down here has been terrible ever since I got in rain rain and more rain I spent most of the week trying to deal with a leak in my friend s new car and stay dry Neither effort has been completely successful so far Selections from the Mailbox Unfortunately the mailbox hasn t been exactly overflowing with mail Things addressed to Resident Box 22171 don t count However the WAP Mac BBS did have a couple of messages aimed in my direction Bob Masso wrote to deliver his impressions of the Atari 520ST Mac alike According to Bob it s slow clunky and very buggy Of course the operating system hasn t been burned into the 128K ROM yet but somehow I don t expect to see much improvement GEM was designed for MS DOS which just isn t fast enough for Mac like stuff Bob also complained about the resolution on the monitor the only time it s in the same ballpark as the Mac s is when you re in monochrome mode So much for the much hyped hi res color Me I like the Commodore Amiga but that s another story Another story The Commodore Amiga is a much more serious challenge to the Mac than the Jackintosh It s a powerful fast m
162. m not imagining all this am I A Welcome to the Twilight Zone Actually you are correct the introductory decision should compare the high byte of FRETOP the end of numeric storage to the high byte of STREND the start of string storage otherwise it may not garbage collect when needed or collect more often than needed Thanks for pointing this out For those who missed the original correction the instruction JSR NZTAB at line 60 should be removed and a new instruction JMP NZTAB placed immediately before label FNDV AR2 Q My current puzzle is about Applesoft Basic keyword token editing Do you know of any editors that can deal with Apple soft on a token level The reason I ask is because I ve re ceived a recent update of The Data Factory from the quiet folks at MicroLab They haven t answered any of the several letters I ve written but they do seem to be able to process my annual 30 00 warranty extension payment Their latest version is written in copyable BASIC but with some very long lines of compressed code The programs will list but can t be worked with The A P E I recently received from A P P LE won t handle the long lines Neither will GPLE Apple Tool Kit or Big Edit Exec ing the representa tive text file after looking at it with Applewriter II just chokes the Apple A I have not used a program that allows one to create long Applesoft lines however a friend of mine thinks that ProCmd will do it Notice how I absolve m
163. mal This solution is given in DOWNPOKE with the data for the entire character set After RUNing DOWNPOKE RUN SET TEST will display the character set DOWNPOKE is probably the best approach in BASIC but a machine code program will run much faster and character designs are easier to read as hexadecimal numbers With machine code there is a new problem If we write the equivalent of DOWNPOKE it won t work The machine code routine puts out bytes faster than the transmission to the printer can handle To solve this study the SSC manual to find how normal transmission is controlled The answer is store the byte in 27 and JMP CCO2 The routine there waits for a ready signal then sends the byte from 27 to the transmit register Having solved this problem it is time to dress up the machine code by making it self locating so that it can be used at any location in the memory This allows using it when there is already a program in memory written DOWNLOAD loads at 2000 but it works just as well in response to BRUN DOWNLOAD A 5678 Finally a matter of technique in entering machine code Washington Apple Pi with editing capability Whenever you enter a sequence of several hundred bytes you always make at least one error If it is an incorrect byte it is easy to correct but if you have omitted a byte usually near the beginning you must juggle the data with memory moves or do a lot of retyping When I copy a published pr
164. mbers on New Apple Products New Products Announced By Apple Special Pricing for Pi Members Apple Computer Inc has just announced several Clinton Computer is pleased to announce that Washington major new peripheral products for both the Apple and Apple Pi members will receive a 25 DISCOUNT off Macintosh product families the list price on all Apple brand hardware and software and on The product line is impressive It includes composite AppleCare This discount extends to the new line of Apple color monitors for the Apple e and c which also display peripherals though quantities may be limited for a short clear 80 column text in a monochromatic mode The new period of time depending on Apple s allocation of product to UniDisk 3 5 is a high capacity floppy disk for the e and our stores To take advantage of this discount just bring in Iic that greatly increases storage capacity and speed The your Washington Apple Pi Membership Card to our store ImageWriter II a worthy successor to the ImageWriter In addition Clinton Computer guarantees that our price is features inexpensive color printing near letter quality text the lowest in stock price for Apple products of any anthorized an optional sheet feeder and a slot for expansion cards dealer in the Washingotn Metro area Apple has also added a 20 megabyte hard disk to the Mac If you would like further details please call either of our intosh product line as well as a new modem and software s
165. n Board Operator and the Executive Board Like most WAP policies of course this one is not burned in ROM Accordingly I have asked the BBS Committee which meets at 7 30 p m at the WAP office on the first Tuesday of each month to consider whether these guidelines Should be a changed or b formalized in the WAP by laws Everyone is invited to attend the next meetings currently scheduled for October 1 and November 5 Contact the Bulletin Board Operator Lee Raesly if you are interested in participating in these discussions Washington Apple Pi original program disk and manual 25 offer CLASSIFIEDS For Sale Visidex filing program by Personal Software Legend Industries 128K RAM disk emulator and emulator program never used was 300 175 offer Call David W 454 4085 or H 422 8926 For Sale Odesta Helix w version 1 13 update 200 Microsoft Word w version 1 05 update 90 MacDraw unopened 75 MacProject opened never booted 75 Hayden Speller 30 Games Run for the Money Cyborg Hitchhiker s Guide Suspect Cutthroats Mac Attack Through the Looking Glass Legacy Entrepreneur Word Challenge Sargon III Ground Zero The Witness Deadline Planetfall Enchanter 25 each Call Bruce evenings only 703 922 6898 For Sale Attn Insurance Agents The Quasar HK2608UE computer with adaptor full warranty basic program chip cover 240 DB MASTER for the Apple used
166. n Software Hayden Software FTL Games and Electronic Arts CHIPWITS FOR THE APPLE A Review by Dave Granite Oboy Oboy A new program to teach your kid to think like acomputer Whadyamean he already thinks like a couch potato and you don t want him imitating other inanimate objects Actually CHIPWITS is a successful attempt to teach LOGO like concepts coupled with an idea of how the com puter thinks It involves placing a cute robot in various environments where they gain points by taking avoiding or destroying different objects In this respect it is much like ROBOTWAR but alas there is no beating up maiming or incapacitating of the other guy as in ROBOTWAR CHIP WITS is a relatively non violent game with only a few Opportunities for random destruction I constructed a robot by building circuit boards from a set series of icons I picked up the icons via an arrow guided by the joystick in a fashion similar to PINBALL CONSTRUC TION SET and placed them inside chips which can be interconnected to give the robot a series of commands Unfortunately my elderly self centering joystick usually grabbed the wrong icon or upon grabbing the correct one wouldn t let go After a half hour of frustration I convinced the stick that I was its master and created a robot able to leap tallest buildings in a single moment and run faster than a Speeding bullet The game does rather painlessly and surreptitiously teach pro
167. n years working in a University lab on elementary educa tional software It s fun and challenging enjoyable for adults or older kids teaches logical thinking and planning skills in a painless way and has enough variety and depth to keep anyone interested for months Computer programming is typically an abstract task with a loose connection between the program and seeing the result Chipwits is different It tums programming into a direct visual activity with immediate rewarding visual results For intelligent kids who have some trouble with language Chipwits can open up a new world One of my friends has a gifted but dyslexic son The boy has been frustrated for years by the gap between his mental capacity and his ability to use 16 October 1985 language With Chipwits he is not only programming but getting the confidence that comes from mastering something difficult In Chipwits your task is to use a special picture oriented programming language called IBOL Icon Based Operating Language You create and wire together the chips that guide a robot s movement and activities The Chipwits world includes Good Things like pie coffee and disks Bad Things include electro crabs and bouncers Teaching the robot to pick up the good things while avoiding the bad things is the key to success in Chipwits Best of all there are eight different environments which require different programming for the Chipwit to succeed This may sound dull bu
168. nately almost identical to earlier versions developed on the CP M system That is it is not very Mac like It makes no use of pull down menus although MS BASIC version 2 provides for them You can not cut and paste data or graphics between applications al though you can output the results to a BASIC data file which can be converted for use in a word processor As you can see below from a sample histogram its graphics are of the text variety and make little use of the Mac s ability to draw high resolution graphics NWA has essentially moved their BASIC programs into the Macintosh environment LOW LIMIT OX 3000 SCALE 1 1 60000 2259 25 02 63000 Massnzse 50 085 66000 s 222 4 81 23 69000 zzz 4 4 4 100 03 72000 100 08 Output Screen PCrinterd FCila QQui t2 2 NWA Statpak Histogram contd October 1985 67 The accompanying manual is quite lengthy and contains examples of output from just about every routine It begins with an explanation of system operations file utilities and frequently asked questions Each program is described in its own section accompanied by sample print outs I found the manual fairly easy to use It had both a table of contents and an index The manual is the same one which accompanies the program when it is supplied to an IBM PC or CP M user Although brief a Macintosh oriented addendum is included I was most disappointed
169. nation doesn t have any problem My problem occurs when I wish to clear the buffer The Grappler manual says to press and hold the reset key down for 2 seconds However on the Keytronic keyboard the reset doesn t stay on I suspect that unlike the Apple keyboard the grounding of the reset key is not allowed to remain in the reset position Consequently I am unable to clear the buffer and the unwanted printing continues So my question is can I modify by adding an external switch my Apple so that the reset key stays on If so how A There are a couple of ways The least destructive is to buy an Apple prototyping card that plugs into one of the Apple slots At the bottom of this card are numbered fingers that plug into the connector in the Apple Connect a normally open pushbutton switch a Radio Shack 4275 1547 or 275 1572 will do between number 26 and number 31 on the card The prototyping card is in theory available from Apple dealers but may be hard to find 1t is also available from JDR Microdevices for 15 15 part number P500 1 JDR s toll free number is 800 538 5000 or in CA 800 662 6279 disadvantage of this method is that it uses a slot Another way is attach a switch to the keyboard connector on the Apple motherboard The cable from the keyboad plugs into a 16 pin connector at the front of the motherboard If you attach very fine wires to the pushbutton switch 30 wire wrap wire works well you can slip these into
170. nd dirty calculations and for a little bit of fun playing with my millions school with his math and I heard that some good educational programs had finally come out for his age group So we called up a program store and voila here in three days That s what I call service It is also the most abominable thing I ever did Now don t get me wrong The program is excellent But now where there was peace I have sown discord Where there was quiet harmony and serenity of the soul in communion with a higher power now there is monumental competition two oldest Sarah an Jonathan have transported their sibling rivalry to my office and have turned my MacPeace into a MacBattleground Each of these spiritual infants are fighting over turns banging each other over the head with the Mouse Nooo Jonathan it s my turn No Sarah You ve already had your turn Daddy Sarah s not sharing What am I going to do Do I have to buy two Macs Will a c keep them happy now that they have tasted the childlike simplicity of the Mac Alas both solutions are beyond my means I am indulging in wishful thinking What will I do Oh to return to that peace and solitude What I would give Hey Jonathan and Sarah go away No not now I m not finished Hey no Hey It s my turn No it s still my turn No I started at 3 and my fifteen minutes aren t up yet e Washington Apple Pi THE BEST OF THE MAC ABBS by Regina L
171. ndex of Bruce Field s Q amp A articles which had been appearing in the Journal since Paleozoic times Bruce s appearance is deceivingly youthful This turned out to be a more difficult task than anticipated at first glance involving the reduction of one or more para graphs of question to a single line digest lending itself to indexing In any case the fruit of this effort appeared in the July 1983 Journal and covered the issues from November 1980 to June 1983 In the spring of 1985 while he was still President of the Pi and still had clout he mused as to how it would be nice if the Index were to be updated to the present Eager beaver that I was his wish was my command and I leapt to a flurry of inaction for some months Eventually however my conscience got the better of me and the task has now been completed The Index includes all questions handled by Bruce Field from November 1980 through September 1985 Several explanatory comments The questions are arranged alphabetically first by Sub ject Category Column 1 and second by KEY WORD in the Question Column 2 The year and month of the Journal issue in which the questions appeared are under Issue Column 3 The question number is in the last column labeled Since no question numbers appear in the Journal articles and some questions generated by Bruce do not even have a Q before them you may have to read carefully and mark your Journal wi
172. nes Bring AW program and blank formatted ProDOS disk 15 with Apple member 20 with Apple non member 20 w o Apple member 25 w o Apple non member Please check the desired tutorials and return this form with fee s made payable to Washington Apple Pi Ltd toin Washington Apple Pi Ltd Name Attn Tutorials 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Daytime Phone Evening Phone Bethesda MD 20814 Total Enclosed INDEX TO ADVERTISERS INDEX TO AUTHORS Anderson Jacobson Back Cover Begleiter Ralph J 58 Litman Regina ANMARC Electroncis see 63 Bouwkamp Ellen L 72 Little Jim 77 Clinton Computer Center ED Burger James M 60 Mason Brian 50 Computer Den Ltd 2 20 eee eevee 7 Chapman Rick 45 Morganstein David 67 Computer Service Center Inside Front England Joe 31 39 Ottalini David 12 13 Computer Ware Unlimited 25 Field Bruce F 22 76 Peterson Jeff 70 Eastman Kodak Inside Back Galbraith V Scott 32 Platt Robert C 64 FutureVest Computers 65 Granite Dave 14 Raesly LeonH 46 Hippopotamus eee 9 55 Grant Richard o 15 Ryan Charlene Eas 93 15 171 Hardis Jonathan E 54 Smith Donald 16 Micro Roots
173. ng the user to set the prefix to drive 1 or drive 2 This feature can be addeded by inserting the following line 430 DN VAL 1 IF DN 1 OR DN 2 THEN PRINT D PREFIX D DN GOTO 390 I hope that you will find these changes useful Washington Apple Bulletin Board SYSTEMs Special Consulat re SYSTEM 1 986 8085 SYSOP Joe Chelena Hardware Software General amp Park Boards SYSOP Joe Chelena dBase SYSOP Nick Veloz Board SYSOP Joe England SYSTEM 2 986 8086 SYSOP Larry Halff Mac Hardware Mac Software amp Mac General Boards Larry Halff BASIC Programing Board Mike Ungerman Games amp Board Available SYSTEM 3 SYSOP Available Upload Download Board Available SYSTEM 4 B SYSOP Lee Raesly The Classified SYSTEM Hardware Software Miscellaneous amp Em Boards Lee Raesly SYSTEM 5 89 8984 SYSOP Alice Allen Journal amp Indexing Boards SYSOP Alice Allen Passwords SYSOP Mike Ungerman Indexing Committee Chairman Emil Levine ember eerte Bonnie Walker Member eere Jeff Berger BBS Committee Chairman Lee Raesly Members Dave Harvey Mike Ungerman Alice Allen Barry Fox Joe Chelena Larry Halff Marty Milrod Emil
174. ngton Apple Pi Volume 109 IAC 11 Applesoft Tutorial Volume 181 Beginners Cave Volume 182 Lair of Minotaur Volume 183 Cave of the Mind Volume 184 Zyphur Riverventure Volume 185 Castle of Doom Yolume 186 Death Star Volume 187 Devil s Tomb Volume 188 Caves of Treas Isl Volume 189 Furioso Yolume 190 The Magic Kingdom Volume 191 The Tomb of Molinar Volume 192 Lost Isl of Apple Volume 193 Abductor s Quarters Volume 194 Quest for Trezore Volume 195 Underground City Volume 196 Merlin s Castle Volume 197 Horgrath Castle Volume 198 Deathtrap Volume 199 The Black Death Volume 200 The Temple of Ngurct Volume 201 Black Mountain Volume 202 Nuclear Nightmare Volume 203 Feast of Carroll Volume 204 The Master s Dungeon Volume 205 The Crystal Mountain Volume 206 The Lost Adventure Volume 207 The Manxame Foe Volume 208 The Gauntlet Forth Volume 700 Assembler Disassembler Volume 701 Full Screen Editor Volume 702 GoForth Tutorial Volume 703 Fig Forth Volume 704 Floating Point Arithmetic Vols 121 135 directly to the author Total Order Make check payable and send to Washington Apple Pi Volume 409 Modem 730 Volume 410 Essential Utilities Volume 411 Text Editor Volume 412 S
175. nment consultant types and the rest of us However the feeling prevailed that ENA was not formed just to serve the business and professional communities but also to help any online organization accomplish its goals through networking That could be a peace movement a research team worldwide a business thinktank a select Society or a social club Areas where ENA is expected to concentrate include For networking systems Pooling examples of successful applications of computer conferencing to use in marketing and public relations efforts For networking professionals Sharing learnings about how to moderate conferences more effectively how to introduce new users to the medium and how to conduct professional activities online 36 October 1985 For organizational network users Supporting research and development related to networking technology and practice to give a source of ideas and information about using the medium to improve organizations as information and com munication become a larger part of every enterprise For individual network users Becoming a collective voice would help to preserve the aspects of networking which are important like privacy and free speech and to be heard on the many issues which will arise as this new technology develops within our society This will be a big task But using the widely distributed system of networks and networkers to collect ideas about needs and strategies from a mu
176. ns At the top of the list is the Newsletter published by Frank Moore Up until the end of August the Newsletter was a weekly publication sent to each subscriber s door by the Postal Service s ECOM system By the time you read this however the Newsletter will have become the Magazine with articles advertising etc Subscription price is 35 00 per year For his Newsletter subscribers that included copies of all back issues Publisher Moore says that policy will continue for all new subscribers at least for the next year or so When I talked to Moore in early September he indicated the publication date would be the 16th of the month with September being the first month of the new format He says that by switching to a magazine he ll be able to offer readers a greater variety of articles and other services he could not do while publishing only a two page newsletter Initial plans call for each issue to deal with one major subject such as communications disk drives etc Moore knows his stuff and is tuned in to what s going on in the current world He s also working on a Unification Project to try to bring the entire community closer together Moore s doing this in addition to holding down a real job so you know he cares just a little bit about the of course he s also making some bucks which doesn t hurt either As of early September his is the only publication not published by a specific user s
177. ns at Line 10 or later 6 PRINT D CLOSE LISTING 7 TEXT END b Run the program Applesoft BASIC program will now become a text file on disk with the name LISTING C To convert a received text file which has been stored on disk to Applesoft use the EXEC command and the downloaded file name The same procedures work with PRODOS but the CHR 4 is not required d An alternative is the AE PRO utility program EXEC MPF A or other public domain utilities designed to create EXEC files NOTE CP M BASIC files are already in text form and do not need to be converted 2 To send a file from Apple to 100 a Load the file to be transferred into Apple s memory b Turn the Model 100 capture buffer on down F2 command D Quick and Dirty Interface cable George Kinal claims this cable will work with almost any computer with an RS 232 connector and the DTE convention all Apple interface cards except CCS 7710 and virtually all other micro computers In other words if the computer can be connected to a modem without a special or unusual cable then the Quick and Dirty cable will connect it to another such computer like the Model 100 This cable has all the handshake leads on both ends always set high Pins 2 and 3 are crossed over in the usual null modem manner All computers including the Model 100 except the IBM PC require a male DB 25 connector on the end of the cable See figure 1 1 Known cases where thi
178. ntastics Font editor Jazz 5 integrated Best Price LaserStart print on HP laser 79 95 LaserBase New Power DBase 179 95 MacArt DpT Clip art amp Book 34 95 MacCAD Professional 3 D design 339 95 MacDraft Best Drafting program 189 95 MacDraw Object oriented graphics 166 00 MDS Mac Development System 175 00 MacPlots II New SizePlotting 119 95 Overvue 2 0 Superb D Base 189 95 Quick Disk a better RAM disk 29 95 Thunderscan for 1 15 amp Laser 199 95 Ihe MacNiftys Are Now at MacCorner 670 1752 Drop by 8653 Zetts Ave 100 Software packagos Our Now hours aro 10 8 m th 10 6 tri amp 10 5 Saturday 3 1 2 Memorex 10 box 3 1 2 Basf 5 amp case Disk Bank System 3 Amarray MediaMate 3 8 1 2 x11 Paper 2500 Galthersburg Md 20877 or Write To MacCORNER PO Box 1248 Rockville Md 20850 Tax Pers checks clear in 2 5 days We CHOICE amp AMER EXPRESS Pending releasa PRICES ABOVE FOR APPLE x MEMBERS ONLY oor ere DDC Washington Apple Pi October 1985 71 FINANCIAL COOKBOOK A Review by Ellen L Bouwkamp Let me start out by saying that I am a math person I love to play with numbers so perhaps it was my continuing fascination with the way computers ease mathe matical calculations that prompted me to buy Financial Cookbook by Stan Trost and Electronic Arts And perhaps it is that same fascination which finds me both pleased and disappointed in this set
179. nted We need volunteers that are willing to work or better yet have FUN indexing the Washington Apple Pi Journal Emil Levine 953 3017 evenings has agreed to chair the Committee We already have two volunteers Bonnie Walker WAP2652 and Jeff Berger WAP6007 and need a few more The idea is that when completed the index will be available on the NEW Journal BBS provided by Alice Allen special thanks to you Alice in two forms You will be able to peruse it in a printed page format just as you could read it in the Pi Journal There will also be a printed copy at the PI office In addition it will also be on the Journal BBS as a separated field sequential text file Thus after each item on one record or line will be a cr Thus any member will be able to download it to a text file of their own then upload it into their own data base You will be able to do your own sorting or searching offline with your own favorite data base Emil has also gotten the cooperation of Fran Spigai President of Database Services Inc Boy I sure hope I spelled your name right Fran It is as confusing as mine Her company maintains the Micro Computer Index on Dialog She has offered to let the Pi use their Thesauraus of micro computer terms A special thanks also to you Fran Paul Koskos of Pi office fame known affectionately to many of his friends as Your Paulness has already com pleted the updating of the Index to Bruce
180. nterest to do so There are literally millions of disabled citizens out here in the real world but they re largely invisible and rarely thought of except when one notices a wheelchair ramp or braille at the elevator buttons And the spectrum of disabling conditions are broader than those mentioned And through the wonders of modern medicine the numbers of the disabled are growing daily That s not a dig at the medical profession but an acknowledgement of their ability to increase survivability from stroke and trauma and illnesses of all sorts What remains are individuals some times isolated trying to regain some quality of life and seeking the tools to do so The computer is just such a tool an ability enhancer a basic communications tool and an environmental controller We feel that Apple would gain much where it counts on the bottom line if it established a network with its dealers so that they will know of product availability software and hardware that will aid the disabled It would increase the market place and could serve as a resource for inquiries if someone in need wheeled in off the street The Grey Panthers like to remind us that we ll all be old some day so now s the time to think about issues of being elderly It s not an escapism philosophy Well the likeli hood is that someday too to some degree you ll be disabled It s an issue for us all MACDEAF We don t know much about it but MacDeaf has arrived
181. of the SIG it was no easy task getting into the house and Paul had prepared a particularly fiendish puzzle before entry could be gained Paul also had previously distributed 3 pages of coded instructions and directions which had to be deciphered The members were treated to the Moore s excellent food a group solve of a never before seen graphic adventure prepared with Adventure Construction Set and a gaming trivia quiz Originally the high scorer on an overall basis for the evening was to get any software under 60 of his her choice however the group awarded the prize to the Moores after they refused to accept any pecuniary help for the considerable expense they obviously incurred You only have about 1 month to vote in the club s software poll so that a representative and viable result can be published in time for holiday buying The software companies are ready to unleash a torrent of software for holiday buying By the December Journal which 14 October 1985 will be distributed in late November and early December we hope to be able to give everyone the word on what s worth buying and what isn t HOTLINE Two GAMESIG members are now on the HOTLINE one for the Apple series games and another for Macintosh GAMESIG POSTER ARCHIVES The GAMESIG Poster Archives first unveiled at the August meeting will permanently reside in the office We wish to thank the companies donating them Spectrum Holobyte Origin Systems Pengui
182. ogram particularly one listed as a hex dump or when there is a lot of data as in the character designs in this paper I prefer to write the program on a word processor for use as an EXEC file Entering the data in batches using as in DOWN MAKER not only makes it easier to inspect and correct but allows easy modification of the design of a particular character In the general case where there is no nice recurrence pattern omitted bytes can easily be inserted since we are dealing with word processor text To generate the binary file DOWNLOAD the disk carrying DOWN MAKER is inserted and EXEC DOWN MAKER entered from the keyboard The file is then saved with BSAVE DOWNLOADS A 2000 L 370 There is however one special trick involved In entering data the monitor uses 40 41 to hold the address at which the next byte is to be stored calls up this address Unfortunately DOS also uses 40 41 as a pointer so EXEC ruins the program To circumvent this I have one disk on which DOS uses 85 86 instead of 40 41 and boot this disk before EXECing The locations where 40 needs to be changed to 85 are 9E1C A26F 207 A30A A739 A749 A751 A779 A785 A79D A7A7 A7AD A7B8 A7D9 A7E9 A7F2 A7FA A801 A805 A80C A810 A81D A824 A829 A832 and A835 The locations where 41 needs to be changed to 86 are A2D3 A6Al A73E 770 A7A5 7 A7DE A7F5 and A826 LISTING 1 10 REM DOWNLOAD USIN
183. oks as if Scott put a lot of effort into it From WP4621 to ALL 07 02 SigMac in Magazine The August issue of Computer Entertainment in an article on public domain software and giving the Mac as an example about users groups states Washington Apple Pi of Bethesda MD one of the largest Apple groups now supports a Macintosh Special Interest Group with its own newsletter and hotline One out of 2 isn t bad Ron Wartow From WP6861 to ALL 07 03 My Opinion I think APPLE is withholding the official release of their rogramming languages until the new ROM is at 99 The existing ROM has so many patches that the ROM calls in MacBasic and the new MacPascal can t be fully supported I also think this is the cause of the delay in the release of MacTerminal 2 x My Prediction is that once the ROM is done we will see a full assortment of great software out of PLE Of course they are not stating this because they n want to halt the supply of other Macintosh software ave From WP5416 to WP6861 07 06 Withholding Software MacTerminal 2 X is still out for Beta testing and is certainly not being withheld Microsoft Basic 2 0 took most of the tential thunder out of MacBasic Apple which professes to bea hardware company and not a software company looks to Microsoft for favors and support Perhaps there is a friendl aries e d on the subject MS Basic saved Apple s Washington Apple Pi From WP4985 to ALL 07 03 MS Excel Saw a demo
184. olumns so that when consolidated it is diagonally lower and to the right This permits freedom with column and row manipu 22 October 1985 lation I have however found easier manipulation in keeping related spreadsheet files in a subdirectory and take the time to load those that are related to the desktop I personally prefer smaller spreadsheets to the larger consolidated ones Steve Meuse has written to explain how to simulate a shift key mod on a e so that word processors designed for the Lor can be used According to Apple s Technical Over view of the e Developer mailing The shift key mod may be duplicated by soldering a 500 ohm resistor across the logic board connector at X6 NOTE The warranty is voided by doing this Steve adds that he has seen in letters elsewhere that the 500 ohm resistor is not needed that a drop of solder will do fine Steve also warns readers not to press Control Open and Closed Apple Reset on c s with external drives as the disk in that drive will have a track erased This doesn t make a lot of sense pressing Control Open and Closed Apple Reset on an enhanced e only runs the system diagnostic program Perhaps the problem only occurs on a c if you are writing to a disk when the combination is pressed In any case consider yourself forwarned Q I have the Buffered Grappler and a Keytronic KB200 keyboard for my Apple gt In normal operation i e text and graphics the combi
185. on that returns a Macintosh 32 bit pointer to the window record of whatever window is active e g on top of the desktop The procedure body of PageCir is deceptively simple First Moveto homes the cursor Next FrontWindow returns a 32 bit pointer to the current window However the window record is probably outside the memory reserved for the p machine s data variables and therefore cannot be accessed using Pascal pointers If it could then we would be able to write EraseRec ptr port portrec but the variable ptr is a 32 bit pointer not a 16 bit Pascal pointer Instead the program uses the built in absmove procedure to make a copy of the window record in the p machine s data area The first parameter to absmove gives the 32 bit pointer to the source data to be copied ptr our window The second pararneter is the 32 bit pointer of the destination in memory locate wr give the 32 bit address of our Pascal variable wr The third parameter is the number of bytes to be copied Once copied Washington Apple Pi the copy can be passed to EraseRec to clear the screen Many thanks to Dave Neumann for his help on this point Glueing it into your program Once you type Listing 1 you can compile it into a code file called FilePack Code Next consider Listing 2 which is a sample program that uses the FilePack unit The comment U FilePack Code is a compiler directive to take information from the interface section of FilePack when compil
186. one which really bugs me at times removing out dated material from the bulletin section Most USERS have no trouble remembering when they want to post an announcement about an upcoming event or when they want to advertise something for sale however they rarely remem ber to go back and remove the message once the event has passed or the item has sold Please if you want the best from any BBS which you use try to at least help the SYSOP in that area Whether you are an experienced BBS USER or new to the Washington Apple Pi game I strongly urge you to dump and print a system s help file during one of your initial uses Many system commands are similar however most boards will have a few commands distinct to that system and most boards also have commands which will make the USER s life simpler but which are documented only in the detailed help file Also when in doubt don t hesitate to ask for online help from the SYSOP After all that s part of what he s there for Most systems support a CHAT or PAGE command for requesting a discussion with the SYSOP If you don t get a response then leave your question for the SYSOP via feedback and check back later that day or the next Also please remember that the SYSOP receives precious little normally none monetary compensation for his time and effort spent running the BBS Even if the system is based totally on subscriptions it will barely cover its ongoing costs and take years to recover in
187. ones For a 128K or 512K Mac 7 tye Options Cover the white teapot with the 12 gray pieces To Order MacPoly costs 29 95 plus 3 shipping Send a check or money order to Sabaki Dept 2510 Box 8217 Rego Park NY 11374 NY State residents add sales tax D ra ER TEST ajte ajrosje JC Saar 20 hae Moderate Challenging Very Challenging Impossi Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer Inc It understands English thinks fast and knows over 35 000 useful intriguing facts Uses an Al parser to understand and answer questions in plain English A brief listing of topics in clude an 800 number di rectory world time zone and area code info loan calculations metric con versions calories of food historical trivia Olympic winners World Series Super Bowl etc 34 95 See your local dealer Fast access to thousands of insulting jokes dirty jokes rude jokes silly jokes one liners puns and quotations Search for spe cific jokes or quotes by keyword or author Digi tally recorded laugh sound track Select jokes with a rating of PG R or X Two great Macintosh K amp R C compilers Both have HOS Hippo s UNIX like Operating System Level 1 includes a symbolic debugger on line tutorial and over 250 pages of helpful documentation Level 2 also includes an optimizer a 68000 assem bler and floating point for 399 95 Available non copy
188. or an unmodified copy of Wordstar itself non Document file contd Washington Apple Pi ORG 0100H Origin for ASM COM only ORIGIN SET 0F27FH LENGTH True origin OFFS SET ORIGIN PATCH OLDADR SET 0 69 IO Vector for Punch Dev 1 One patch to IOCB DW ORIGIN DW LENGTH DB 1 DB 8 DW OLDADR phony punch dev N A PATCH CPI 40H 72 40BH OFFS The sign CPI SDH The Micropro s mistake JZ 406 OFF CPI SEH The caret RNZ None of the above retum XRI 10H Converts all three RET LENGTH EQU PATCH Get length of code END 8 Save the text file under the name KEYPTCH ASM 9 Use ASM COM from a System Master to assemble ASM d KEYPTCH 10 If assembly occurs without errors no error messages print out the file KEYPTCH PRN to document the patch and for future debugging 11 Load the patch using LOAD COM from Master disk LOAD d KEYPTCH 12 On disk d the file KEYPTCH COM should now appear 13 From System Master enter MBASIC CONFIGIO 14 Choose menu choice 3 Load user I O driver software and provide the filename d KEYPTCH 15 Now choose menu choice 4 Read Write VO Configuration Block make the W choice and designate the disk drive in which the Wordstar disk you wish to modify is located 16 Do a complete cold boot of the patched WordStar disk Without WordStar having been run the keyboard should act in its normal fashion Now run
189. or of a program such as MacWrite 4 5 takes time If you the reader take the time to look into it you can find your name and your conclusions in print in a future column Please Q PageMaker seems to allow you to paste up 16 pages at a time How is this possible within the constraints of disk space A Bernie Urban Editor of this Journal recommends that you ignore the 16 page feature and just paste up the articles or pages one by one That s how the Journal is put together Q Anything new in the world of Publishing soft ware A Yes At MacWorld Expo in Boston the second versions of MacPublisher and Ready Set Go were announced Micro soft has entered the competition with Typographer Q Is there any new information on non Apple memory upgrades Have any been blessed A Absolutely not Informed sources on CIS MAUG are currently suggesting that a Macintosh II will be announced at the January stockholders meeting Present owners will be offered an upgrade package consisting of the new ROMs a new and improved motherboard with additional features and even one report suggests a new back cover hint hint If you have altered your present motherboard the package will cost you a premium The extra cost may not be unreason able The only way to get the new ROMS will be via this board swap If any company represents to you that their upgrade is just as good as Apple s that you won t be disqualified for service o
190. ore sending it along to the printer interface card AND 7F ORA 6 If the original data are single character strings X using PRINT X then POKE 6 ASC X puts the proper value in 6 PR 1 sets CSW to C100 but the first byte sent to the interface card triggers an initialization routine which in turn resets CSW to C107 for a serial card C102 for a parallel card I think these addresses are correct for all printer cards for the Apple but it is easy to examine 36 37 after your card is initialized to check the new address For the bit restoring routine CSW is reset for some convenient address say 300 where we locate the routine AND 7F ORA 6 JMP C107 We now face Problem 2 The first step is to search the interface card manual to learn the location of the command byte 9 For the Apple Super Serial Card this is 5F9 or D1529 By POKE 1529 255 we change the CTRL I lead in to FF which represents a solid column of 8 dots and can occur only in very special cases It certainly can t occur in subscript or superscript characters which are only 5 dots tall DOWNPRINT uses this solution to demonstrate A as both subscript and superscript Another solution is to avoid PRINT by sending the data not to the input area of the card but directly to its output area bypassing all examination for commands This is done by POKEing the data in the card s transmit register For the Apple SSC this location is C098 or 16232 in deci
191. ors for possible implementation Obviously without active input from the membership this vital process can t take place I believe that there is presently no well defined procedure by which the general membership can make its thoughts known Individual members occasionally speak up and rela tively small groups of members attend board meetings and Such Sometimes an energetic and well motivated individual will even take it upon himself to start a SIG or see a project through to completion This is highly commendable and appreciated by all but to expect each of WAP s four or five thousand members to start his own SIG or project every time he has an idea is unrealistic Much better to have a permanent forum generally acces sible to all members where ideas suggestions and opinions could be presented by any member for examination and discussion by all before being voted upon 1f the results of the vote s were recorded perhaps even published in the Journal there would be several benefits An incredibly potent resource the ideas and suggestions of thousands of intelligent and imaginative Apple users could bereadily tapped for the benefit of all WAP members The hard working and sometimes beleaguered WAP leadership would have an accurate and constantly available barometer of the feelings and opinions of the majority of the general membership Members would probably feel more involved interested and cohesive even as WAP grow
192. ove are exported The interface also declares a new type str255 This type must be used to pass strings to OldFileName and NewFileName The implementation declarations define data structures common to both of these procedures Most of these defini tions were covered in the last column Procedure SFPutFile is a new call to the Mac ROM It displays the standard Save As Window Note that its ROM address 22038 is the same as SFGetFile Although the same ROM routine is used to display both the Save As and Open File windows the calling sequence and parameters of the two procedures are different Of particular importance is the last parameter which is a secret code number to distinuish the two routines If the code number is 1 then the ROMs will recognize an SFGetFile call if the last parameter equals 2 then the ROMs will execute a SFPutFile call Gimme a New File Procedure NewFileName takes three parameters These appear in the interface section and are not repeated except as a comment in the implementation section The first parameter is a prompt to be displayed above the file name blank in the window Use something meaningful like Open Which File The next parameter is a default name to appear in the file name blank of the window for example Myfile The user can edit this default value using the usual MacWrite conventions The third parameter is following parts a string that will return the name of the file that was selected by
193. owing the Mac printing standard has been tested with the most popular printers Layered 85 Merrimac Street Boston MA 02114 Insight Standard accounting package Accounts Receivable and Billing Accounts Payable and General Ledger with expert reports with interpretation analysis and recommendation Micromax Systems Inc 6868 Nancy Ridge Drive San Diego CA 92121 gallery Finance package 795 Accounting and business management system based on the one write system includes General Ledger Accounts Receivable Accounts Payable and Cash Disbursement Eleven additional modules are planned Trial disks available Microsoft Corporation 10700 Northup Way Box 97200 Bellevue WA 98009 Art Manager Art indexing Washington Apple Pi system handles up to 10K images its retriever works as a desk accessory to pick and paste graphics into word processors Typographer 195 Microsoft s answer to Aldus Pagemaker desktop publisher Pagemaker is used to set the Journal PBI Software Inc 1111 Triton Foster City CA 94404 Strategic Conquest 49 95 Tactics II expanded to the Mac environment over two billion configurations one of the first war games for the Mac Will run on 128K Mac Paladin Software Corporation 3255 Scott Blvd Santa Clara CA 95054 Crunch 295 100 discount when you send in original or backup Multiplan disk with official label High power spreadsheet claims to be faster th
194. p Computerized r u 1 P nt List ap Merche re Times TaS edules er Nu 073 October 1985 13 GAMESIG NEWS by Ronald Wartow OCTOBER MEETING The next meeting will be held on October 3 1985 at the office beginning at 7 30 p m SEPTEMBER MEETING About forty people attended the September meeting Nominations for GAMESIG Chairman and Journal Colum nist were solicited NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS In accordance with the WAP Bylaws Article X this is to solicit nominations for the positions of GAMESIG Chairman and Journal Columnist Nominations should be made in writing no later than October 1 1985 and addressed to Sharon and Barry Bedrick Nominations Committee c o the office or by phoning the Bedricks at 703 534 7891 The election will be held at the October meeting and all interested parties are invited to attend We have four new games this month and they will be reviewed in the November Journal space permitting Inca Hayden Software for Apple s with 128K The Holy Grail Hayden Software for Apple with 128K Balance of Power Mindscape for Macintosh and Deja Vu Mind scape for Macintosh For more information on these see the software received section in Review Corner by Jim Burger elsewhere in this issue GAMESIG PARTY On August 24th a few hours after GAMESIG sponsored the WAP meeting about 20 GAMESIG members attended a party graciously hosted by Janice and Paul Moore In the spirit
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196. pecially database management and word processing Therefore being locked into one set of integrated applications may not be advisable Ideally a set of programs should 1 match your needs especially databases 2 have common conventions I do make exceptions LVT s hot area scroll bars 3 allow quick movement between applications compatibility with Switcher and 4 transfer of data painlessly Thus wait for Excel although non power users may want to look at Crunch and put it Word ThinkTank 512 a good data base and a draft paint on Switcher and a terminal program if Andy Hertzfeld can every make that work How you ask Simple on my 2 megabyte RAM XLisa at work At home I guess I ll have to suffer with some sort of hard drive interface and 62 October 1985 only two programs at a time on switcher until a large memory upgrade on the Mac makes sense PRODUCTS RECEIVED Unless otherwise indicated the products are for the Mac and the price if indicated is the suggested retail price HARDWARE Dayna Communications 50 South Main Street Salt Lake City UT 84144 MacCharlie 1795 Hardware and soft ware product that permits the Mac to run IBM software and use IBM peripherals also acts as a printer buffer and numeric keypad for the Mac SOFTWARE Apropos Software Inc 64 Hillview Avenue Los Altos 94022 MoneyWorks M Personal financial planning tools for AppleWorks for the Apple e or c Includes
197. people to spread the word about Apple and thereby increased Apple s sales Consumer Marketing Dave C t Manager of Consumer Marketing presented an overview of what he described as The New Apple In the old Apple Dave said the Apple line and the Macintosh line duplicated much effort Apple focused on products not markets This led to a number of mistakes such as trying to sell the Mac to business without formally supporting a letter quality printer In the new Apple development manufacturing distribu tion and operations for both Apple and Macintosh lines have been consolidated into a single Product Operations division with sales and marketing in a separate division Marketing has been divided into three areas Consumer Business and Education Within Consumer Marketing Dave said they were concentrating on three areas home education home business and the installed base i e current Apple owners Dave said that Apple now recognizes that existing customers are a critical factor in Apple s success He cited studies indicating that 90 of Apple owners said they would buy Apples again and that the number one factor influencing people s decision on what kind of microcomputer to buy was word of mouth Following this presentation Dave and his colleagues discussed a number of marketing issues with the groups representatives One of the foremost of those was how to improve relations between Apple and users groups 18 Octobe
198. ple e Dave Granite 14 amp A 5 25525555 Jonathan Hardis 54 Ultim amp J 245 54 Grant 15 MacNovice Fantastic Fonts 3 Ralph J Begleiter 58 Chipwits for the Mac Jessica Weissman 16 Review Corner e e o o o e o James M Burger 60 Think Fast 55 Donald Smith 16 MacAdvantage Using Units Robert Platt 64 1985 Apple Users Group Conference Tom Warrick 18 Softviews e e ess o o David Morganstein 67 LOA gp wo9e9veaeeusgswwearuge Field 22 WAP Goes to the MacWorld Expo e Tom Warrick 70 Q amp A Index sessao Paul Koskos 24 Is It My Turn Yet seswa Jeff Peterson 70 Thoughts on the Future of WAP Joe England 31 Financial Cookbook A Review Ellen L Bouwkamp 72 Frederick Apple Core sss 8 8 6 ea 32 The Best of the ABBS Regina Litman 73 Confessions of a SYSOP V Scott Galbraith 32 New Apple Product Releases Adrien Youell 75 Lap Computer to Apple Nancy Harvey 34 Apple Beginners Tutorials Bruce Field 76 ENA Vision Ungerman 36 Disketeria Dispatch gt es Jim Little 77 The View from Durham e e Chris Klugewicz Disketeria Order Form Ad Index Tutor Reg 79 80 Clinton Computer Offers Special Pricing uA to Pi Me
199. preadsheet Macintosh 7 00 see above GA GA Gu p qm gm qum ur une qm gums um ee aea ur ee ee ee ee ___ disks postage 5 SigMac SigMac SigMac SigMac SigMac SigMac SigMac 1 MS BASIC Pgns 2 Atkinson s Goodies 3 Fonts 4 MS BASIC Pgns 5 Desk Accessories 6 Mac Paintings 7 Desk Calendar amp MS BASIC SigMac 8 MacFORTH Programs SigMac 9 Not One Byte SigMac 10 Mostly BASIC SigMac 11 MacFonts Recommended as SigMac 12 MacFonts a pair SigMac 13 RAM Disk and Altered Finder SigMac 14 Filevision Templates SigMac 15 Playground SigMac 16 New Members Disk 1985 SigMac 17 Red Ryder 5 0 SigMac 18 MusicWorks Collection I SigMac 19 Mock Accessories SigMac 20 MacPaintings II SigMac 21 Utilities I ResEd SigMac 22 Desk Tools SigMac 23 Fonts III SigMac 24 Telecom I SigMac 25 Utilities II Switcher 4 4 136 must be purchased together Total amount enclosed US funds payable on a US bank Ltd Attn Disketeria 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda MD 20814 WAP MEMBERSHIP NO October 1985 DATE 79 WAP TUTORIAL REGISTRATION The following three WAP tutorials are being offered to Apple owners on Tuesday evenings from 7 30 to 9 00 PM at the office 8227 Woodmont Ave Bethesda MD The tutorials start promptly at 7 30 if you bring your computer please arrive 15 minutes early to set up You may sign up
200. preadsheets with a number at the start of the filename and the ProDOS CONVERT program doesn t like this Of course the DOS 3 3 RENAME command doesn t work either Is there anyway I can get DOS 3 3 to accept a number as the first character A The DOS 3 3 code checks for a number starting at A048 The first character of the filename is in the accumulator at this point and the accumulator is then left shifted one bit Then two tests are performed BCC to A050 and BMI to A050 or a JMP to A000 if both tests fail If the first character is not a number or control character the code at A050 is executed if it is not a legal character the program jumps to A000 To defeat this replace the jump to A000 with NOPs i e at A04D through A04F place EA EA EA Q I have used a Master Catalog program and enjoy the ability to develop a catalog of my files However the program is set to print on an Epson in condensed mode I have an Apple Imagewriter and am trying to figure out how to modify the print commands to use condensed mode make horizontal tabs work and eliminate double spacing No luck can you help A Fixing the condensed mode is the easiest part To get a printer to print in a special mode i e condensed the program must first turn the printer on with a statement such as 1 and then print one or more special characters that the printer interprets as commands to change the print mode to what you want Since the program already
201. program but copying only the necessary definitions is faster and eliminates the need to have the Mac Interface file on line The most criptic declaration is that of WindowRecord Each window has information about its status saved in RAM memory This includes the title and whether it has a close box in the corner of the title bar etc Whenever windows must be redrawn on the desktop the Window Manager routines in the Mac ROMs use this information to draw each window The first part of each window record is a grafport record and within this part are the coordinates of the upper left and lower right corners of the rectangle that the window occu pies Since this information is the only data needed by PageClr instead of copying the entire definition of WindowRecord from Appendix A 27 of the MacAdvantage Manual I used an array of integers to fill in the remaining length of the record You would think that WindowPir Should be defined as WindowRecord but that would generate 16 bit p machine pointer Instead WindowPtr is the data type that will hold a 32 bit 68000 pointer to window records PageClr uses three ROM routines Moveto controls the screen position of the next WriteLn Moveto 0 16 will home the cursor EraseRec will fill in the area of the screen whose corners are passed to it as a parameter The pattern used to fill the screen is determined from the currently active grafport e g window record Finally FrontWindow is a functi
202. program procedures for Epson self prompting INSTALL pro explained for those who have Gemini Okidata Prowriter one or more of these programs 8023 and Apple and for those who want to AND MUCH MORE find out about them ISBN 0 913131 03 2 A Real Treat No longer gram to install your glossary any need to remember or en onto your Apple Writer pro ter printer codes With the gram disk Glossary disk you can enter 14 95 12 95 MAY WE TAKE YOUR ORDER S Minuto Manual For The Dot Matri Primer minute Manual For PFS Fle Roporvaraphiwrna Apple 1298 Minuto Manual For Appio Writer Faiossary Diek For Apple Wer Jsa T Minuto Manual For DB Master VERS sz Send check or Money Order or use VISA SIGNATURE CARD NO amp EXP MC NAME ADDRESS 29 sep v MINUTEWARE o o oas BOX 2392 COLUMBIA MD 21045 Fominsa saso on es ias Washington Apple Pi October 1985 11 APPLE NEWSLETTERS AND MAGAZINES BY DAVID OTTALINI OK Apple fans Listen up In past articles in the WAP Journal I ve mentioned a couple of specific magazines that are still in some state of publication But as has been quite rightly pointed out to me at our SIG meetings there are other publications that deserve mention and which may very well be worth your attention and subscriptio
203. r Customizing MacTerminal by Jonathan E Hardis and Larry Rosenstein How to customize the keyboard in MacTerminal Keypad Simulate numeric keypad with command keys SigMac Disk 25 Utilities II Switcher This is it Switcher version 4 4 On the DESKTOP RamStart by George A Nelson is a Ram Disk pro gram It is one of the best we have seen It s at least as good as the commercially available products RamStart allows you to set up what files are to be placed on the ramdisk at startup n th nt Librarian folder Font Librarian Documentation by Proper Software A short note about Font Librarian Most documentation is in the application itself Font Librarian by Proper Software The Font Librar ian is a replacement for the Font Mover It makes working with fonts such as the public domain fonts on users group disks much easier and more predictable The Font Librarian lets you see fonts before moving them lets you keep many windows open at once and gives you many other capabilities that the Font Mover does not Since The Font Librarian is a Shareware program you may make copies for your friends The 20 registration fee is detailed in the startup and help screens of the program i P H 1 Hints 1 by Reas nable Software A help screen for Painter s Helper PH 1 Hints 2 by Reas nable Software Another help screen for Painter s Helper Painter s Helper 1 by Reas nable Software This application help
204. r if Apple decides to market a Mac with more memory they could do so at any time using either the AT amp T chips or more of the other kinds Q How can I get schematic diagrams for the Mac A Some of the third party upgraders such as Beck Tech are beginning to publish what they ve reverse engineered Scan MacWorld for ads Beware of mistakes in these though Also MacMag a Canadian magazine sold in the U S too began a series of articles each with a piece You can order the whole set from them directly for 25 Canadian less in U S Write MacMag Lt e 3743 rue Notre Dame Ouest Montr al Qu bec Canada H4C 1P8 514 935 2381 Q In my office we use both IBM PCs and Macs for word processing How do we share the work A The only software I know of on either machine that reads a formatted document file made on the other is Microsoft Word on the Mac which reads Word documents from the PC Other 56 October 1985 than this one way street all documents edited altemately on both machines are limited to plain unformatted text To exchange files between the two machines you could use AppleTalk and PC Mac bridge you could run communication programs such as MacTerminal and PC Talk on the respec tive machines or you could get a MacCharlie which is alternately called a total waste of money or the best foot in the door for the Mac depending on the situation try before you buy Dennis Brothers recently noted that he
205. r 1985 Public Relations The groups representatives discussed with Apple s Public Relations department the possibility of getting product information on a more timely basis Apple in tum expressed an interest in hearing from users groups about success stories involving the use of Apple computers Software Marketing Guy Kawasaki Manager of Software Product Management described the many things Apple was doing to encourage third party developers to write Software for the Apple and the Mac Guy gave some tips to Software developers that also revealed Apple s intentions regarding new hardware 1 Macintosh developers should target the 512K Mac This means that new software will be less likely to run on a 128K Mac 2 Support the Apple interface formerly called the Mac interface In other words Apple intends to bring the Macintosh environment to the Apple 3 A number of unfilled needs exist in Apple and Macintosh software for the Mac high end word processors and vertical markets for the Apple innovative educational programs and mouse based software We asked Guy whether users groups could distribute programs from the Mac Software Supplement and he said that he hoped that those programs got into the hands of everyone who could make use of them Without the blessing of Apple s legal department however it would be premature to rely on these statements Another hot topic was MacBasic During the conference one of t
206. r 1985 Washington Apple Pi DISKETERIA DISPATCH by Jim Little Three more game disks and one graphics plotting disk have been added to the DOS 3 3 library We are also adding three disks to the SigMac library The Disketeria staff is work ing on other disks for the coming months Look for us as the holidays approach More new recycled programs next month Ed Note Too late for this month s Officers and Staff masthead Disketeria helpers Richard Langston III and Nancy Little WAP DISK 161 Wizard Worker This disk by Rich Mlodoch contains programs useful for editing wizardry characters With these programs you can change class alignment race and other attributes of your characters Gold and experience levels may be changed and possessions may be added or dropped Healing is not pro vided but gold may be added to a member of the party for use in the Temple of Cant This utility works on all three scenari os Use your backup disk not your scenario disk It is recom mended that you use a secondary backup rather than your main backup Wizardry is a trademark of Sir Tech Software Inc WAP DISK 162 Games E Disk 162 is compiled from several disks of the same group Richard Langston put this one together These are graphic games some using the keyboard and the rest a joystick paddle Hopper puts a green amphibian at the bottom edge of a screen with a busy road and a canal to cross before reaching safety at the top of the sc
207. r DOS 3 2 and 3 2 1 BASICS DISK Function of DOS 3 3 amp Language Card BOOT PRINT to Screen E and DOS 3 3 BASICS Disk Difference BOOT e doesn t but runs self test at turn on BOOT CATALOG Cursor Control BOOT Erratic with 6 CTRL P 3 205 BOOT For Drive 2 Active After Noise from Drive T Problem with Locally Initialized Disks BOOT Protected Disk From D2 after booting DOS from D1 CATALOG Defeat STOP LIST at Full Screen Page CATALOG Duplicate Names How Gotten CATALOG Recover Deleted Catalog Data or Programs 1 CATALOG Recover Deleted Catalog Data or Pro roms 2 CONTROL CHARACTER Find if one is in File October 1985 55 89298 amp 8 00 000000 ANUN CAO 4A RON i I gt Da a CA O WH OAN CA e ROCA gt CA SWAN UO CA 2 OS he CO RW 4 ON ON OO oo w 858 2 N 82 12 81 11 09 99 00 09 Q0 99 06 00 QO O9 98 e 9S9S9S5S9S S9SS 2392989S9952 2999 9 9 Ww CALA 83 06 04 rt SN t3 e 9 N contd Washington Apple Pi GRAPHICS Washington Apple Pi CTL D and PR 1 Commands Use of DISK COPY Best Programs Cards DISK DRIVE Automatic access 5 if there DISK Explain Double Density 40 Track etc DISK H
208. r a forward and back feed Change your FEED selector from PIN FEED to FRICTION to avoid this problem ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Super and Sub Script Settings were obtained from the utilities supplied by Milt Goldsamt and obtained from THE APPLEWORKS USERS GROUP See Milt s article the September 1985 WAP Journal Think Fast contd from pg 16 importantly the extensive documentation gives us a look at how we remember things the difference between different types of memory and hemispheric dominance in memory Overall very good educaitonal software for those who want to improve their memory just fun for the rest of us The version I used was for the Apple family 64K required color monitor and joystick preferable but I used the keyboard and green monitor and it worked fine It is also available for the Macintosh Chiptwits for Apple contd from pg 14 quickly by having several environments in which to place your created robot I cannot really see adults putting it on their top 10 game list but it s good to inflict on children for teaching computer ideas amp Q amp A contd from pg 23 feed every time it receives a carriage retur A carriage return is just that the print head is moved to the left of the carriage but no movement of the paper occurs To get the paper to move up one line you will need to have the interface card OR the printer generate a line feed but not both Generally it is preferab
209. r programs OldFileName was covered last time Procedure NewFileName presents the familiar window that prompts for a new file the window that appears when you select SAVE AS from MacWrite Finally Procedure PageCir will erase the text from the standard Mac Advantage window This is equivalent to a page output command in Apple Pascal MacAdvantage Version 1 1 Before getting into the guts of the unit a brief commercial for the new update to MacAdvantage It is definitely worth the 25 fee Version 1 1 offers a Mac like interface to the Compiler and Librarian It also correct numerous and unspecified bugs in 1 0 Desk Accessories are now available from the Executive The procedure termination code is now available in any procedure Being spared the burden of memorizing file names when invoking the compiler is well worth the upgrade fee Unit structure A Pascal unit consists of the end B begin initialization instructions executed before first call to A or B ves termination instructions executed after exit from A or B end The above example featured a unit with two procedures A and B that can be exported to your program It is legal and frequently convenient for a procedure to declare variables and even procedures that are hidden from your programs Such declarations appear after the keyword implementation instead of appearing in the interface Turning to our example the three procedures described ab
210. r upgrades or that Apple approves of their product get those claims in writing You may also want to telephone Apple s customer service line for verification Q I have an old Hyperdrive What about me General Computer intends to have their ROM update pack age at their dealers before Apple delivers theirs You will be offered a combined upgrade Q A while back WAP was shopping for digitiz ers What is the current status A The committee had good opinions of Magic and Thunder scan The former captures any standard television image while the latter works only off of paper While slow Thuder scan gave good results Even though none have been purchased for the office yet Kevin has been known to let people use his Thunderscan if they ask him nicely Q Where are the error numbers that show up on contd Washington Apple Pi 100 Challenging Puzzles presents jigsaw puzzles in a style created by Sam Loyd and H E Dudney The jigsaw pieces are shapes made out of squares Computers Replace Cardboard Loyd and Dudney asked solvers to cut the pieces out of cardboard Instead MacPoly draws the puzzle for you on the Mac Use the mouse to select any piece and drag flip or spin it into place From Kids to College Professors Puzzle fans from kids to college professors will enjoy MacPoly There are easy puzzles challeng ing puzzles even impossible puzzles Solutions provided to all but the impossible
211. ral series can be displayed in a bar chart with a 3 dimen sional appearance If you have seen a Macintosh screen you will recognize the pull down menu approach taken with MC The main menu items are File Edit Print Function Format Graph Calculate Link and Info File allows you to load and save files format disks and examine their directories Edit gives access to cutting copying and pasting entries changing column width and inserting rows or columns The Print menu provides hard copy while the Format menu is your tool for establishing the appearance of the data justification number of decimals etc Cells can be protected or their formulas displayed The Function menu makes insertion of formulas as easy as clicking the Mouse button When a graphic display is desired you merely select a range of cells and give them aname After opening a second window use the Graph menu to indicate your choice of line or bar chart The Calculate menu allows you to select manual or automatic re calculation as well as the row vs column order of computa tion DIF files can be read or written and Mouse Write files merged using the Link menu Documentation The manual is divided into a 65 page tutorial and a 100 page reference section The tutorial is well 68 October 1985 written and keyed to sample files provided with the disk The reference section matches the menu headings and delves into the options under each offering The manual contain
212. rd processing capability to the Apple or e October 1985 39 FIXING WORDSTAR REV 3 3 FOR THE APPLE The Bracket that MicroPro Forgot by George Kinal A Preface Yes I know There probably arent more than three readers out there with Apple s not e s and WordStar Rev 3 3 On the other hand some of you might find this information useful some day soon The migration of micro owners to newer hardware and software is giving those of us with the obsolete stuff an incredible opportunity to acquire some very powerful capabilities at a small fraction of their original cost Maybe equipping an Apple for WordStar wasn t worth 1000 to you back in 1981 software a Softcard memory card an 80 column card but today by buying used software and hardware or the now much cheaper accessory cards the same setup will cost you 200 or less 1 WHERE S MY CAPITAL M I bought recently from a fellow W AP member a WordStar package Rev 3 3 1983 and proceeded to install it on my Apple 11 I used the installation option for an Apple II with single wire shift key modification To my dismay and horror shift M yielded a left bracket instead of capital M The only way to obtain M was to shift lock first then type M then unlock Inquiry on the WAP ABBS told me that earlier WS versions did not have this problem and that some version 3 3 owners were indeed coping with the problem by using the shift lock sol
213. reader that this compiler based language will produce clickable programs that run under the Mac operating system I read the manual today before buying the program ard noted that tho clickable files can be produced the user must have two Softech proprietary A rams on the disk before the application will execute Moral you cant write stand alone applications for use by people who don t also have MacAdvantage Also you can t provide either the run time support programs or your application to another user without getting an economical license from Softech Am not implying there is anything wrong with this just clarifying a point From WP3432 to ALL 07 19 Color Mac From InfoWorld John Dvorak column 7 22 Apple will announce a color Mac at its January stockholders meeting It will be able to display 32 colors at once What 68000 chip to be used is not known at this time Joe Chelena From WP6861 to WP3432 07 19 Color Mac On Sunday night Andy Hertzfeld held a forum on CompuServe and when questioned about a color Mac he said not until late 1986 If you are a Maug member I highly recommend downloading the transcript of his discussion There were ay of news items including the new 128K ROM Switcher 4 0 MacBasic double sided disk drives 20 MB hard drives and more The transcript is located in the Users Forum S 23 Data Library 6 DL6 the file is ANDYCO Download it find a copy of it it s great stuff Dave From WP34
214. reen Invader deka vader is an adaption of the old arcade game and plays reasonably well Power rays from space still will smash you if they hit and the shelters don t last long under the battle scene Kong is a lo resolution version in basic of another arcade machine It is keyboard based unless you care to modify the inputs and it is a challenge Lo Res Fantasies generate a series of screen patterns in color An Apple Kalidescope Ultra block is a version of little brick out with a difference Instructions are in Japanese Only one chance in the game unless you change the program to allow for more Try it the language is not that much of a barrier and paddle 1 and button 1 do everything except quit Pinocchio rewards the capture of white blocks on the screen with a longer nose the only part of the anatomy shown of the poor wooden fellow Again a keyboard commands the movement and like the commercial product if you hit any thing it s curtains We included a paddle joystick test as a bonus See if they re working correctly if they center if the buttons fire etc Jack o lantern is a high resolution display for the season Written basic modifications of the shapes of the face may be made at will The final program is Graphics Games a dynamic Washington Apple Pi display which creates hi res pictures for your enjoyment Your input controls exactly what you see New data makes new patterns WAP DISK 163 Graphs an
215. ress return or space bar Copy Trials asks you to copy a set of pattern blocks on the left half of the screen into a set of blank boxes on the right half again using the arrow keys and return Recall Trials displays a set of letters number or shapes in a given order Then from memory you must duplicate the order Think Fast asks you to make several choices as to the skill you want to be tested on Speed fast medium slow Difficulty 5 levels Risk Taking 5 levels risk taking refers to the amount of points taken off for a missed question and Number of Trials the number of questions you want to be asked I was afraid that Think Fast might be a boring quiz game I was wrong It is both fun and easy to use But more contd on pg 47 Washington Apple Pi The Personal Computing Association presents Computerfest 85 A gathering of user groups and computer stores in the Washington D C Area IBM Atari Commodore Apple and a host of others V Greenbelt Hilton Exit 23 on the Beltway October 12 1985 9 30 AM 4 00 PM Admission 2 with this ad 4 general For further information Personal Computing Association Adele H Stamp Union Rm 3113 University of Maryland College Park MD 20742 Funded in part by University of Maryland Student Government Assocation Version 1 0 8 8 85 Washington Apple Pi October 1985 APPLE LISTENS A Short Report on the 1985 Apple Users Group Conference by Tom Warrick
216. ruction on the Macintosh and EVENT QUEUE Washington Apple Pi meets on the 4th Saturday usually of each month Library transactions Journal pickup memberships etc are from 8 45 10 00 AM From 9 00 to 10 00 AM there is an informal Help session in the auditorium The main meeting starts promptly at 10 00 at which time all sales and services close so that volunteers can attend the meeting A Sign interpreter and reserved seating can be provided for the hearing impaired but we need 3 or 4 business days notice Call the office PLEASE NOTE The October and November meetings will not be at USUHS The October meeting will be at Northwood High School 919 University Blvd West Silver Spring The November meeting will be at Walt Whitman High School 7100 Whittier Blvd Bethesda Following are dates and topics for upcoming months October 26 Telecom SIG and Vendor Show November 23 Aspects of Music December 21 Garage Sale Dates for SigMac held at Georgetown University are October 5 Hard Disks and the Mac Office November 2 Decisions Support Systems December 7 TBA The Executive Board of Washington Apple Pi meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7 30 PM at the office All members are welcome to attend Sometimes an alternate date is selected Call the office for any late changes Univertity Blvd 55 reola Ave DS M11 Rd X Northwood H S Unfversity Blvd Georgia Ave Conn
217. s e Start with a blank disk Copy onto it a small System File and a Finder no need to copy the Imagewriter Clipboard and other files found in the System Folder just a System File and a Finder Also copy the Font Mover or Mover Open the Font Mover Now Copy a single font doesn t matter which one in a single size doesn t matter which from the Installed section in the Font Mover into the Fonts file Quit the Font Mover When you re back to the desktop you ll see a new Fonts file on your disk It ll be a pretty small one since it only contains one font in one size Now here s the tricky part Duplicate that Fonts file Just select it and choose Duplicate from your File menu Now you have two identical fonts files on your mostly empty disk Rename those new Fonts files Give one the name Empty Fonts Give the other the name of one of the other fonts you intend to break out of the fat fonts file on your System Disk For example call it New York 58 October 1985 J MacNovice Column by Ralph J Begleiter 78 avamable Empty Fonts Font Mover V Now York Large Font Now copy from your System Disk the disk from Apple with all the fonts on it the fat fonts file which Apple gave you with your Mac It ll take quite a few disk swaps to accomplish that copy because the fat file really contains a lot of stuff Open the fat Fonts file by clicking
218. s pushed this project for some time Now is the time to think about our American heritage and to incorporate Glen Echo as a possible permanent Washington Apple Pi site Bernie is the visionary who sees the possible development of Glen Echo as representing all our forces ALL our computer forces Apple IBM Commodore Atari and Sinclair and the performing arts Glen Echo is a sufficiently memorable site to inspire all Arts lovers and computerists Computerists are after all artists Members I urge you to visit Glen Echo Park and feed back to Bernie your views of your impressions I would be very happy to receive and annotate your views should you wish to mail your data to me I have an IN tray in the Pi office which I inspect regularly Washington Apple Pi PIG Library Reissues by Michael Hartman Issued recently were revised versions of four disks in the Pascal Interest Group Library Two of these were revised to fix bugs while the other two were updated to work with the 1 2 release of Apple Pascal On PIGO ATTACH BIOS for Pascal 1 1 a documenta tion error in the ordering of the UnitStatus call s parameters on the stack was corrected Note that this disk is supplanted for Pascal 1 2 by the Apple Workbench product Apple Pascal Device Support Tools However while the UnitStatus call stack is documented correctly on page 19 of that manual the original mistake is repeated on page 90 For those writing device dri
219. s Ian Thal 202 244 3649 Appie Ml Jerry Chandler amp 703 790 1651 Bill Rosenmund 703 941 5050 Appl lic Chuck Holzwarth 703 751 7575 Charles Franklin 301 997 9138 DisabledSIG Jay Thal 202 244 3649 EDSIG Peter Combes 301 251 6369 Forth SIG Kevin Nealon 703 280 1136 Frederick Slice Maj Lynn Trusal 301 845 2651 G Ronald Wartow 301 654 4439 LAWSIG John Weld 202 822 3354 LISASIG Gordon Stubbs 703 750 0224 LOGOSIG Steve Hunt amp 301 262 9080 Don Landing 703 690 1010 NEWSIG Bernie Benson 301 951 5294 Pascal PIG Larry Taborek 703 960 2250 PI SIG Raymond Ho Hobbs 301 490 7484 STOCKSIG 703 893 9591 Telecomm SIG George 202 546 7270 Washington Apple Pi Ltd 8227 Woodmont Avenue Suite 201 Bethesda MD 20814 Business Office 301 654 8060 Copyright 1985 Washington Apple Pi Ltd EDITORIAL Thank you s are in order Thank you Jim Graham for substituting last month during the weeks we were away Without your help we could never have finished the Septem ber issue in time We squeaked in under the wire Thank you also to the many who helped run the WAP booth in Boston at the MacWorld Expo I hope you had as much fun as I did Please note Tom Warrick s article in the Mac Section of this newsletter He has a surprise for each of you Washington Apple Pi Personally I was gratified by the turnout at the Future of the Pi meeting on September 21 D
220. s Ignore parity 1 stop bit XON XOFF enable Note the 5 in the series 57IIE above tells Model 100 to use 1200 baud and go to RS232 port Other baud rates may be possible or required as noted previously 3 Special programs e g Disk Plus Disk Plus Portable Computer Support Group Dallas Texas List 149 95 Provides user with a ROM that goes into the Model 100 and a Program on disk for the Apple When using this the Model 100 becomes a dumb terminal and the Apple disk drive becomes accessible for file storage Transfers at 9600 and 19 200 baud are possible Program is simple to use however the present version only works with an Apple Super Serial card Attempts during the workshop to use the program with Super Serial card emulators such as the Seri All card were not successful Macintosh Transfer follows similar principles except the Mac has a different connector This means an adapter must be bought or a different cable made purchased C Applesoft to Text Conversion 1 Capture programs in a text file p 76 in the old DOS 3 3 manual contd Washington Apple Pi N a Add the following lines to beginning of Applesoft program you want to convert to a text file When the program is RUN a text file on disk will be created 1 D CHR 4 2 PRINT D OPEN LISTING 3 PRINT D WRITE LISTING 4 POKE 33 30 REM This is an ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL statement 5 LIST 10 63000 REM This assumes original program begi
221. s you without quitting the game to retum to the Finder and make a duplicate of Ultima Party just before you plunge into any situation that could prove deleterious to your characters health If your contestants are wiped out you can quit the game erase Ultima Party replace it with Copy of Ultima Party and you ve only lost about five minutes of file manipulation instead of long hours of play And here s another Switcher trick There is a technique in the game the exact nature of which would be unethical for a reviewer to reveal by which it is possible to catch a brief glimpse of one s surroundings But as Kodak might say why not make that brief glimpse last forever Take a screen shot by pressing lt Shift gt lt Cloverleaf gt 3 use the Switcher to open MacPaint and print the document thus created which will be titled Screen 0 You can now return to the game with the comforting support of a roadmap But but is this fair Is it well sporting Remember this isn t an adventure It s a computer pro blem Lord British thought he had his weapons assembled when he equipped himself with invisible files and copy protection and plunged into the fabled land of Gaming But there were a few surprises in store for him Let the adventure continue CHIPWITS FOR THE MAC A Review by Jessica Weissman Chipwits is simply the best piece of educational software for a microcomputer that I have ever seen and I spent te
222. s Magician 42 Evelyn Wood Dynamic Reader 49 Z Term Pro 102 ek 31 Printographer 28 Logo 28 SPREADSHEET Pro Byter 24 Micro Cookbook 28 DATA BASE Pronto DOS 20 X Mind Prober 35 Fiashcalc 69 Silicon Salad 17 Times C word Puzzles l 14 spa Nos Magicalc 103 Triple Dump 28 Sideways 41 Record 40 Multiplan 98 Wizard s Toolbox 28 Sylvia Porter Pers Fin Planner 69 Spreadsheet BWS 42 Zoom Graphics 35 EDUCATION Algebra 1 2 3 4 ea 28 Algebra 5 amp 6 35 BUSINESS HOME vervue 193 LEISURE PFS Report File 121 Back to Basics Sales Edge uthroats cea 4 AP AR GL ea 140 Speller Cyborg uild a Boo out You Chart 98 Think Tank Deadline Cause amp Effect red blue 35 Compuserve Starter Kit 26 TK Solver Enchanter me sed GRE 59 2 Crunch 512K 195 Frogger Davinci Building Blks 55 Fun Pack Opinion red blue 35 Commi Interiors 138 EDUCATIONAL Hitchiker s Guide cee Secrets ea 1 House Interiors ea 35 Experlogo 104 one Hands on BASIC Prog a Landscapes 35 4 Macgammor KinderComp 18 DE Mast r 195 Mastertype 257 e Learning w Fuzzywomp 21 Desktop Calculator 62 Mind Over 34 Millionaire Mastering the College Bds 121 Dollars amp Sense 103 Mind Prober 35 M du by th D Mastering the SAT 69 Dow Jones Kit 21 Score Improvement SAT 81 Aen Mastertype a Entrepeneur 39 Typing Tutor Il 2 Math Blaster 34 ELTE am Word Challenge
223. s a table of contents and a pair of indices one of which is the usual alphabetical one and the second of which displays the menu options with their reference pages Strong Points I am a believer that the pull down menu mouse driven cursor is an easier way to tell a computer what you want These people have done Apple owners a favor by offering an easy to use spreadsheet package Merging some albeit limited graphics capability adds to the worth of the program However I must point out that only three printers are supported for the output of graphics the Imagewriter Epson and Apple Daisy Wheel Although I have neither used Mouse Write nor tried to merge MC spreadsheet data with its text the ability certainly strengthens both packages One option MC offers which is missing in competing products is the ability to name a cell or group of cells and to use the name in references As with Macintosh spreadsheets you can Cut or Copy data or formulas from one place to another Pasting can be done using the exact cell references or by adjustment to a new location MC offers on line help for each menu item The help consists of a multi screen sequence of paragraphs describing the sub options under each main menu option A more direct method would display the paragraph description for the sub option without having to page through a multi page mini tutorial If you have data in another spreadsheet you can import it into MC using the almost universal
224. s cable is not the answer a Will not work if the application requires hardware handshaking b With IBM PC unless a female DB25 is substituted on PC end c If interface on Apple is DCE wired to drive a printer instead of a modem 2 Cautions a Be sure the DB connector does not have a hood style that interferes with connecting to a Model 100 b If interface card is set up in printer mode looks Washington Apple Pi like DCE eliminate crossover of pins 2 and 3 Additional Articles Goodman Danny A MARRIAGE OF STATE OF THE ART COMPUTERS Sep 84 Portable 100 p 42 Transfers from Model 100 to Macintosh MacWrite Author notes that printer cable for Apple Imagewriter printer works with Model 100 and Mac serial port Guren Clifford INS AND OUTS OF FILE TRANSFER Jun 85 PICO pp 17 19 Smart cable file transfer software Telecommuter and Disk Plus Heck Michael SOFTWARE REVIEW DISK PLUS A PICO PC CONNECTION THAT ADDS UP Apr 85 PICO pp 6 8 Discusses both IBM and Apple performance of Disk Plus Hildebrand J D USING THE DATA Aug 84 Portable Computer pp 26 30 Reviews three major methods to transfer data and suggests a fourth electronic mail Holter Kurt THE LAP COMPUTER AS AN APPLE PERIPHERAL Apr 85 p 23 W Modem to Modem using DC Hayes public domain PICKUP program available on WAP disk 19 Kepner Terry and Scott Spangenberg THE APPLE 100 CONNECTION IS EASY WITH RIGHT HARDWARE Mar 84 pp 32 35 E
225. s larger and more diverse This might result in more volunteerism Re occurring squabbles among persistent or outspoken members could be more easily laid to rest if their often good ideas could be presented and voted upon once and for all Washington Apple Pi October 1985 What forum is available which meets the requirement of general accessibility Two come to mind the general meet ings and the Journal If all members had modems and if the ABBS were more frequently available than it is I d also suggest the WAP BBS but it doesn t meet these conditions The Journal is the perfect vehicle for bringing the sug gestions and opinions of the widest range of members to light People who are reluctant to stand up in person at a meeting and make a view or thought known often find it much easier to submit the same suggestion in written form or even over the phone in a one to one conversation Pos sibly all that s needed is advertisement of an address and or phone number allocated for this specific purpose Of course the WAP office address and phone number spring to mind or maybe a P O Box could be used A volunteer would be needed to edit the collected material into a column for the Journal The column might consist of a number of yea or nay type questions that could be presented for a series of quick advisory votes at the following meeting Those who don t can t attend the meetings could send in their votes by mail T
226. s name At least its name is not spoken in the instruction booklet What one must do if one wishes ever to get back to one s home and family again is to rid Sosaria of this scourge by taking on the roles of up to four custom made adventurers This party is assembled in a Dungeons amp Dragons like manner It may contain any combination of members of five races Human through Fuzzy and eleven professions Druid through Thief Each character has four attributes Intelligence Wisdom Dexterity and Strength which are allocated at the time of the character s creation and may be increased later on through arcane processes understood only by the initiated They will march and fight and blunder their way through a fantasy world that is almost daunting in its complexity The so to speak visible portion of the world is displayed one sec tion at a time as the party progresses across the computer screen It is also depicted in a colorful and I would guess un xeroxable fabric map that is included in the game This part of Sosaria is large enough to be interesting with the usual topographical mix of plain forest mountain et al But even more intricate is the hidden portion of the gameworld a multi tiered labyrinth of towns and dungeons and other shady places that are not shown on the map and are left for the player to discover If you re the sort of person who enjoys exploring the twisting roads and alleys and one way streets of Washing
227. s you create better MacPaint drawings It allows you to create curves and other shapes as when using MacDraw Then save your creation in a MacPaint document the Switcher folder SWITCHER Program Hints by Andy Hertzfeld Notes on programming with the switcher in mind Based on the 2 0 version SWITCHER Documentation by Andy Hertzfeld There is no documentation for 4 4 yet This is for 2 0 but should be functionally equivalent SWITCHER 4 4 by Andy Hertzfeld This is the final final release version At least until Andy finds another bug Washington Apple Pi WASHINGTON APPLE PI DISKETERIA MAIL ORDER FORM Disks that you want mailed to you 5 js DISKETTES Members 5 3 1 2 Members 7 Note 005 3 2 disks Volumes 1 40 have been discontinued 41 IAC 25 Mach Lang Util 72 Keyboard Games 73 Text Adventure Games 74 Paddle Games 75 Color Graphics for Fun 76 Education 77 Utilities 90 Spreadsheet C Genl Bus 91 Spreadsheet D Investment 0 ea Non members Software for Creative Living from Washington Apple 1 5 Disketeria are available for purchase 00S 3 3 contd Volume 142 IAC 28 Pinball Games Volume 151 1983 Tax Template Volume 152 IAC 31 Miscellaneous Volume 153 Investments A Volume 154 Investments B Volume 156 IAC 35 Applesoft AW e Volume 157 IAC 36 Arcade Games Yolume 158 Apple Logo Programs This form is only for ordering disks The office will maintain an Pas al
228. se including the Apple people who had arranged the luncheon another product design team came in and like the one the day before began soliciting ideas for future Apple computers Apparently this team had heard of the ideas generated by the meeting the day before and wanted a session of their own The Fremont Manufacturing Facility Next we were taken on a tour of the Fremont Manufacturing Facility where Apple assembles Macintoshes and Apple c s No no flat panel color lap Macintoshes The tour incidentally is available to anyone who reserves a spot far enough in advance about two months in advance Write to Debi Coleman Apple Computer Inc Mailstop 24 20525 Mariani Avenug Washington Apple Pi Cupertino California 95014 for more information Conclusions t is too early to tell whether the 1985 Apple User Group Conference will produce tangible results I am however more optimistic than I was before the Conference started It said much for Apple s commitment to a working relationship with users and users groups that John Sculley and Jean Louis Gassee and many other people took time out from their busy schedules to sit and listen to fourteen people who comprise as one cynic among us said only about five percent of their customers Second Anne Seip and her staff at Apple should be commended for pulling the Conference together in only a few weeks Considerable work was required to set up all the meetings and panels th
229. se boolean of True c packed array 1 4 of char False p integer2 end PuSFTypeList MacPtr SFReply Packed Record copy SmallBool good SmallBool ftype OSType vRefNum integer which disk volume has file version integer fname String 63 end Procedure SFGetFile where FPoint prmpt StringPt fileFilter ProcPtr numTypes integer typeList PuSFTypeList digHook ProcPtr reply PtrSFReply RSFGetFile integer external 22038 A9EA Procedure SFPutFile where FPoint prmpt StringPtr origName StringPtr digHook ProcPtr reply PtrSFReply RSFPutFile integer external 22038 A9EA Procedure NewFileName prompt str255 defaultNm str255 VAR result sti255 dialog box for saving new files var r SFReply comer point NilPtr ProcPtr begin NewFileName corner v 100 set upper corner of dialog box comer h 100 NilPtr 0 dummy of ProcPtr 0 duce SFPutFile comer param locate prompt locate defaultNm NilPtr locate r 1 if r good lt gt 0 then result r fname else result end NewFileName Procedure OldFileName VAR result str255 dialog box for existing files var r SFReply types OSType comer point NilPtr ProcPtr begin OldFileName comer v 100 set upper comer of dialog box comer h 100 NilPtr 0 dummy of type ProcPtr types c supress non Text files 0 SFGetFile corner param NilPtr NilPtr
230. ses like Cartography Presentation etc will cough up the extra 1000 cost difference I have seen text in color and it is ALWAYS not as easily read as the same size letters on a B amp W display when I owned an apple i l used a monochrome screen figuring that losing the ability to play one or two games where the designer was too careless to make sure the game screen was still legible even without color was 74 October 1985 more than made up by the lack of eyestrain Bob M From 6558 to WP4985 07 30 Two sided Drive I ve heard all the news about the internal two sided drive Does anyone know if there will be a plan to upgrade the external drive I can t think of anything that would drive me crazy faster than one 800K drive and one 400K drive Rick From WP5317 to WP6558 07 30 DS Disk Drives As far as I know Apple s uparade will apply to the external drive as well as to the internal Probab will just hand ou a new drive in exchange for the old and the upgrade othing seems to be set in concrete just yet so you may want to drop the folks in Cupertino a Chris From WP703 to ALL 07 24 MAC for Education Is anyone using MAC for educational purposes Or do you have MAC educational software I ve been asked to ask on the BBS since I seem to be the lone MAC member of EDSIG at this point We will begin meeting again on 4th Thursdays come September Sept 26 We re calling schools now to get ideas
231. stic ideas put forward by a few This effort continued until 3 30 a m Special recognition is due to Anne and Harlan who stayed with Reese Jones Berkeley Macintosh Users Group and me until the bitter end to help us put the presentation into final form Presentation of recommendations to top Apple management The next morning we met in Apple s Board Room with Jean Louis Gassee Vice President for Product Development Debi Coleman Director of Manufacturing Mike Mount Manager of Sales Planning and Development Mike Lorelli Director of Marketing and others Dick Hubert of A P P L E Co op presented the introduction AS October 1985 19 began John Sculley Apple s President and Chief Executive Officer quietly walked in and sat at the front of the room Dick described the demographics of users groups which he said are not just hackers but rather are a cross section of Apple computer owners Dick also described the functions and activities of a typical users group Jonathan Rotenberg of the Boston Computer Society then described the advantages to Apple of a good working relationship with users groups He said that users groups support and educate Apple customers thereby increasing the value of Apple products to users Users groups assist Apple dealers by providing kinds of support that dealers are not able to provide Also by increasing users understanding and knowledge of Apple computers users groups increase users satisfaction
232. structions b pressing lt Ctrl gt Reset or Reset e for two seconds If your printer has a buffer like mine does Panasonic 1092 you must use the on off switch for your deselect Hope this is of aid to you You will love the buffer It really saves you time and allows you to keep moving while the printer is printing Gary Hayman From WP2243 To WP3797 08 19 Reset R R Tom yepper that works Did look like it had due to the 2K buffer in the F 10 Starwriter but sure nuf it stopped in a second or two Thanks a lot Brett From WP2208 To WAPO29 08 11 A Wrtr Patch for Bruce I just tried the patch for Apple Writer e to send nulls that you passed on in your Aug A column It didn t work and made A writer un bootable Richard From WP2208 To WAPO29 08 19 Apple Writer Patch Bruce I retried A writer patch on my DOS 3 3 disk this time it worked Problem was and still is it doesn t work on my working copy of A writer which is already patched to use a clock card So now I have two A writers one that can send nulls and another that can tell time Guess one can t have everything or at least all on the same disk From WP1095 To ALL 07 27 WordStar Help I just bought WordStar semi used from WAP member di Washington Apple Pi works fine except for one glitch on my the shift key mod pateh supplied Y Micropro maps shift M into instead of contrary to the manual Anyone else out there h
233. t ThinkTank announced a change in their software copy protection policy Both the 512K and 128K versions of their programs are copy protected requiring the use of key disk insertion for use on a hard disk This is inconvenient For 40 a registered user can obtain an unprotected version of the popular program New purchasers will have a choice between a free back up disk or sending in 40 for the unprotected version LVT said that this was in response to customer demand this is part of the feedback we gave Scott Love from LVT when he demod 512K ThinkTank Echoing my sentiments David Winer LVT President said The market has changed The users are more sophisticated and they are using more sophisticated hardware particularly hard disks Copy protection can make a software product substantially less useful Integration More folks than I can count have asked me whether they should buy Jazz or continue with Word or Write and wait for Excel and Switcher My owns views could be the subject for a whole column Instead anyone interested should read Jerry Pournelle s excellent column in the September 1985 Byte Computing at Chaos Manor p 347 Yes he s written negative stuff about Mac but as the hardware and software comes around so does Dr Pournelle His opinion of integration closely matches mine he wrote the column after attending a Microsoft Excel press conference That is one cannot find the best of certain applications es
234. t contd from pg 70 I got a used Mac that was about the same price as a c with all the extras And for the next seven months I was Heaven Just me and my Mac and my prayers Complete peace and quiet Solitude Ah it was beautiful No one else used the machine Oh sure the kids played with the paint brush some for the first month or two but that soon wore off and I carefully weaned them with less and less time and my wife had no real use for it except to write a letter or two now and then And even she eventually stopped using it and went back to writing letters by hand Yeah So I would sit in my office for hours typing sermons The Lord finally called me to a church typing letters playing the puzzle anything I wanted and no interruptions The children could mangle each other upstairs but in my office it was peace and quiet I even turned off the sound on my Mac so that all I could hear was the gentle hum of an obedient polite and responsive Machine And then about two weeks ago my son s birthday was coming up and those old guilt feelings returned Really a computer is so expensive it really should be for the whole family to use Besides he was having a little trouble in 72 October 1985 In my opinion one must have some familiarity with financial and accounting concepts such as marginal tax rate depreciation rate of return and future and present value in order to get the most out of the Fincancial
235. t once you see and hear the Chipwit in action you ll be captivated You may even forget that you are learning to program In the Macintosh version the animation is superb The designers took full advantage of the Mac user interface Changing the Chipwit s program takes only a mouse click or two Moving from the Workshop where the Chipwits are programmed to the environments where Chipwits carry out their missions takes a few seconds The flexibility and responsiveness make the program a joy to work with You can concentrate on making the Chipwits work right a task which any programmer knows is not easy But even when the Chipwits don t do what you think you ve programmed them to do watching them do it is fun And there s nothing like the reward of seeing the Chipwit rack up points because YOUR program works right THINK FAST A Review by Donald Smith Think Fast from Brainpower Inc the people who brought you Chipwits is really more educational than a game but it s still fun Think Fast is a memory improve ment game in which you attempt to compare copy or recall different shapes letters or numbers in a given amount of time Compare Trials asks you to compare two sets of letters numbers or shapes on the screen to determine if they are the same or different The lower part of the screen contains two boxes Same and Different One of them is highlighted use the arrow keys or optional joystick to choose and then p
236. tall the following 1 Characters per Inch This allows you to specify all the fonts your printer can generate and the printer control codes which produce these fonts There are at least eight of these for the ProWriter CPI CONTROL CODES REMARKS S iss ESCAPEN CONTROL N Expanded 10 CPI 6 ESCAPE E CONTROL N Expanded 12 CPI Tas ESCAPE CONTROL N Expanded 8 ESCAPE CONTROL N Expanded Condensed 10 CONTROL O ESCAPEN Default Font Pica 12 CONTROL O ESCAPEE Elite Font 14 CONTROL O ESCAPEP Proportional Font Iss CONTROL O ESCAPE Condensed Font 2 Lines per Inch 6 LPI ESCAPE 8 LPI ESCAPE B 3 Boldface Subscript and Superscript SUBSCRIPT SUPERSCRIPT REMARKS BEGINS BEGINS ESCAPE ESCAPE Set Printer Incre mental Mode ESCAPE T 06 ESCAPE T 06 Set 24 LPI line feed ESCAPE r Reverse Line Feed Direction CONTROLJ CONTROL J 1 Line Feed SUBSCRIPT SUPERSCRIPT REMARKS END END ESCAPE ESCAPE f Change Line Feed Direction CONTROLJ CONTROL J 1 Line Feed ESCAPE f Change Line Feed Direction ESCAPE A ESCAPE A Reset Pitch to 6 LPI Washington Apple Pi ESCAPE ESCAPE Set Printer Logic Seek Mode 4 Underlining Specify that printer has Start Stop modes UNDERLINE BEGIN ESCAPE X UNDERLINE END ESCAPE Y IMPORTANT For Superscripts and Subscripts the PIN FEED mode of the printer allows too much backlash and printing may not continue on the original line level afte
237. th a pencil to identify the questions with my numbering system But this should not be difficult because of the uniqueness of each question The updated Index has over 450 questions To simplify future updating and sorting it was transferred from the original WordStar file to an AppleWorks Data Base and may soon be available on the Journal ABBS where if all goes well one can use the Appleworks FIND function to locate a subject without visually scanning the whole file Q amp A INDEX SUBJECT QUESTION ISSUE Q APPLE c 65C02 Description of processor 8501 4 APPLE c 65 02 New instructions mnemonics amp op codes for 8508 7 APPLE c CP M and or RAM CHIPS Can they be added 8507 4 APPLE c GRAPHICS ou ing the Hi Res screen 8412 5 APPLE e APPLE c SO E Will it run on the e 8503 4 APPLE e APPLE KEYS amp DELETE KEYS Programming amp Use 8508 6 APPLE e APPLEWORKS Memory needs 8504 1 APPLE e APPLEWORKS Use of more than 64K extended memory 8503 2 APPLE e ENHANCED ROM Js it easier to read 85 05 13 APPLE e EXTENDED 80 COL CARD Can 256K chips be substituted 85 08 8 APPLE e EXTENDED 80 COL CARD Problems with APPLEWORKS 8508 1 APPLE MOTHERBOARD REVISIONS free upgrade 1 8311 5 APPLE e MOTHERBOARD REVISIONS free upgrade 84 03 2 APPLE e SPREADSHEET 2 0 Use extended memory alr sort 8406 2 APPLE II AUTOSTART PROM SYSTEM MONITO ifferences 104 4 APPLE II UPGRADE 8405 6 APPLE II
238. the holes in the connector and also plug in the connector from the keyboard You want to connect the new pushbutton switch between pins 3 and 8 The connector is numbered starting in the lower right hand corner as you face the computer and continues back along the right side Thus pin 3 is the third pin from the Washington Apple Pi front on the right hand side and pin 8 is the last pin in the back on the right hand side This method is somewhat less reliable than the first if you wiggle or pull on the wires Q The letter in your column about the fast garbage collection routine which appeared in Call A P P L E In Depth Volume 1 All About Applesoft prompted me to get around to assembling it which I did according to your suggestion of JMP NZTAB It does collect garbage FAST There does seem to be another bug however in the first routine which decides whether or not to collect Shouldn t line 55 read SBC STREND 1 so you re comparing the two high bytes I incorporated the new garbage routine into a BASIC program which reads lengthy files from disk and sorts through them with string routines I temporarily put a line in the program so I could watch program free space after each string is processed I also injected JSR FF3A after line 59 of the assembly listing of the fast garbage routine That way I get a beep whenever the fast garbage program passes its introductory decision and begins to collect Until I changed line 55 it didn t I
239. tion 8106 5 PRINT EPSON No 8th Bit w APPLE Interface Card Cable 8206 7 PRINT S 4400 Printer Hi Res Dump w Game Conn Interface 8105 2 PRINT DS 460G Printer Text and Graphics Dump Sonwane 8101 2 PRINT IMAGEWRITER Format file to set 8405 7 PRINT INTERFACE CARD APPLE SERI RIALS wont from BASIC 85 05 11 PRINT LOVER CASE from APPLESOFT 8107 3 PRINT LOWER CASE from AE EU 8109 14 PRINT MICROBUFFER II Use with E X 70 8301 1 PRINT MOUSEPAINT w non IMAG WRITER printer 8505 1 PRINT OKIDATA 80 DOW JONES MARKET ANALYZER print routine 84 01 4 Washington Apple Pi October 1985 29 30 APE WORD PROC WORD PROC WORD PROC WORD PROC ORANGE MICRO BUFFERBOARD Work with non Grappler cards PKASO INTERFACE CARD How to activate CTL I T QUADRAM APIC CARD How to print 80 col format RIBBON SCREEN DUMP pple to Epson 100 Printer SCREEN Echo for LIST Command to Printer TABBING with Printer and Apple Parallel Card TYPEWRITER MODE For Comparer combination G TYPEWRITER MODE For computer 2 ADVANTAGES over DOS 3 3 BASIC INPUT Drops rest after co colons quotes CONVERT FROM DOS NO ROOM ON VOLUME message DATE TIME W THUNDERCLOCK I How to advance year EXPLANATION What is good book APPLE II to APPLE e Conversion APPLEWORKS Can it use more than 128K RAM in the e APPLEWORKS Copying START UP Disk APPLEWORKS Find Replace Function Problem with APPLEWORK
240. tioned above B Three major methods are available to transfer a file 1 Direct use of Model 100 built in 300 baud modem with a modem connected to the Apple a Connect Model 100 modem to Apple modem using the modular telephone jack that came with the Model 100 Model 100 to Apple b Put Model 100 in Telcom Mode Originate switch on side c Put Apple modem in Answer Mode 34 October 1985 Note the method used will depend on your modem Some modems require that a switch be changed others accept a command to switch from the Apple keyboard The standard DC Hayes command used by many modems is AT A followed by a carriage return Apple to Model 100 a Put Model 100 in Answer mode b Put Apple in Originate mode e g DC Hayes command AT D followed by a carriage return c Put Model 100 Telcom program in Terminal 2 RS 232 Connection The DB25 connector To use this method you must have the following A serial communications card This is an extra purchase for the Apple or e and is built in on the Apple He and b A null modem cable connection e g the Quick and Dirty Interface described in section D below or a purchased one such as the smart cable c A communications program loaded into Apple and set to same speed bits and word parity as the Model 100 Steps a Connect cable to Model 100 and Apple serial b Call STAT function on Model 100 and set parameters to S7I1E 1200 baud 7 bit
241. to print full page 1 8411 6 MODEM HAYES MICROMODEM Unable to print full page 2 8507 2 MODEM PRINTER Control of while on ABBS 8106 1 MODEM ZOOM TELEFONICS NETWORKER Netmaster software probs 8411 4 MONITOR AUTOSTART Patch to allow clock interrupts w o crash 83 08 4 MONITOR BREAK Continue w out NOT DIRECT COMMAND ERROR 8103 8 MONITOR CALL Convert Ne ative to Positive Number 8103 3 MONITOR LANGUAGE C cannot be activated from Pro Dos 8410 5 MONITOR TEXT SCREEN Fast Fill with Inverse Blanks 8104 6 PRINT and PARALLEL CARD Unwanted Carriage Returns 8112 2 PRINT 80 COLUMN PRINTOUT 8406 3 PRINT 80 COLUMN PRINTOUT with POKE 33 33 command 85 08 9 PRINT APPLE e EPSON FX 80 Prints each keystrok e 8507 7 PRINT APPLE MX 89 PAR INTERFACE Printer misbehaving 84 08 2 PRINT LEP lace QUME and SILENTYPE Davers 8207 4 PRINT C ITOH PROW ITER Superscripts and Subscripts 1 83 06 4 PRINT C ITOH PROWRITER Superscripts and Subscripts 2 8308 1 PRINT C ITOH PROWRITER Superscripts and Subscripts 3 8311 2 PRINT C ITOH PROWRITER Superscripts and Subscripts 4 8402 1 PRINT Use of in in Integer Basic 8102 1 PRINT COLUMN HEADINGS Correct sitioning for Printer 8303 35 PRINT EPSON MX 80 Access GRAPHICS via Game Port 8109 7 PRINT EPSON MX 80 Disable Paper Out Sensor 8304 3 PRINT EPSON MX 80 Dot addressing for super l hi res printing 83 08 3 PRINT EPSON MX 80 Paper alignment prob 8406 7 PRINT EPSON Friction Feed Modifica
242. tober 1985 This is Geneva 12 point This is Geneva 14 point This is Geneva 12 point bold This is Geneva 14 point bold This is New York 12 point This is New York 14 point This is New York 12 point bold This is New York 14 point bold Apple LaserWriter 69 WAP GOES TO THE MACWORLD EXPO by Tom Warrick Many Washington Apple Pi members saw first hand how the Mac market has matured during the MacWorld Exposition at the Bayside Convention Center in Boston on August 21 23 Not only has the number of titles of Mac software increased greatly the software has also become much more sophisti cated and much better The ported programs derived from other systems were virtually absent from this show in con trast to the first one in San Francisco last winter And the show was not virtually all software a number of interesting hardware vendors were there offering hard disks memory upgrades color monitors and add on boxes Your users group was also there in force WAP had a small booth in the corner of the Bayside Convention Center but most of the time it was really hopping Bill Atkinson creator of the QuickDraw routines and MacPaint gave a presentation to about 100 show attendees on how to get the most out of MacPaint At the end of it he offered to make available free to everyone an interesting utility called Paint Mover the name may have to be changed as there is another program around with the same name and an updated
243. ton you may be in your element in Ultima If on the other hand you enjoy the company of a roadmap and the assurance that if you just keep driving long enough you ll eventually live to see the beltway you may find the game unsettling There is no assurance of anything in Ultima In the first couple of days of playing I saw my characters killed off with alarming frequency I replaced them with improved Washington Apple Pi versions which met even more hideous fates There are so many intricacies to come to grips with provisions to buy weapons and armor to learn about intractable townspeople to interview hints to unravel bald lies to smell out guards to bribe treasures to abscond with not to mention the innumerable minions of Evil to overcome in a phrase all that fantasy stuff How seriously you are willing to commit yourself to doing these things and how much patience you have about learning from your own mistakes will have very much to do with how well you enjoy Ultima III When thou art satisfied with the composition of thy party the rule booklet instructs us and I quote here purposefully go to the FILE MENU and select JOURNEY ONWARD The adventure begins Itis a quirky marriage hacking and heroism Like other marriages it works most of the time though not without a certain amount of squabbling Computerizing the more tedious aspects of D amp D type games the endless rolling of dice for example
244. tores 301 856 2500 in Clinton MD or 703 838 9700 in for both Macintosh and Apple Old Town Alexandria VA Apple Personal Modem 300 1200 Baud List 399 00 NY Pi Price 299 25 Color Monitor e and Color Monitor c List 399 00 Price to Pi Members 299 25 i i 3 UniDisk 3 5 Hard Disk 20 Imagewriter II Sheet Feeder for for e and c for Macintosh 512K List 595 00 Imagewriter II List 499 00 List 1499 00 Pi Price 446 25 List 225 00 Pi Price 374 25 Pi Price 1124 25 Pi Price 168 75 Unidisk to e Kit Pi Price 51 75 inton Clinton Alexandria VA 6443 Old Alex Ferry Road 277 S Washington St ompu At Branch Avenue At Duke Street Exit 7A from Beltway Exit Old Town from Beltway Corporate Sales Mon Fri 10 8 Sat 10 5 Mon Fri 10 6 Sat 10 5 2 703 838 9722 301 856 2500 703 838 9700 7 Apple and the Apple logo are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc Macintosh is a trademark Authorized Dealer of Macintosh Laboratory Inc and is being used with its express permission Washington Apple Pi October 1985 1 Up Your Mac With A 512K Or 1 Megabyte Ram Upgrade KEEP YOUR Mac We ship you a complete reworked board Use our tools to take out the old board put in the new board and enjoy either 512K memory or 1 megabyte memory After you make the swap return your old board to us ra Consider The VOAD Advantages 512K up
245. ts in the DC area SUGGESTION Why not try to have WAP serve as a vendor of DOTP disks I recommend Q amp D Vol I in my New Mac Owner Tutorials and others use it How about it WAP This disk contains some of the neatest DA s you ll ever see Permanent timer or mouse locator in upper right hand corner Plus a great catalogger program font adjuster etc It s simply oustanding in almost all of its dimensions Try it You ll ove it From WP5566 to WP6933 07 13 C The April 1985 Computer Language magazine has a comparison of 5 C s for the It is somewhat behind the times as to Consulair e g floating point is now available but a good review overall There also may be a review of Mac C s in The C Journal but I havn t received that publication yet From WP3181 to WP6933 07 22 Mac C s Ed The C Journal for Spring 85 contains a comparison of Aztec C68K C Hippo AS 1 Mac C Megamax C Softworks C all for the MAC The article is written by Me Nani Other comparisons are in the mags as From WP4893 to WP4621 07 13 MacGames for Kids I am 5 years old My Dad told me to ask you what good ames are available for kids I like Megaroids Mouse tampede is boring My Dad says I would like Chipwits and could beat you at it if I tried What do you think Matthew Voglewede Son of WP4893 contd October 1985 73 From WP6729 to ALL 07 15 MacAdvantage Pascal The magazine ads for Softech s MacAdvantage UCSD Pascal imply to the casual
246. ub Rings DISK Use Single Sided Disks in Double Sided Mode DISK VOL LUNE Red on D1 ee fom program DISK VOLUME S Change 1 w o Re INITIALIZ Disk DISK VOLUME S Change 2j DISK VOLUME 5 Change 3 EXPLANATION What is good book FIRMWARE CARD SLOT4 All about Dos Firmware DOS Switch FIRMWARE CARD d y Dee Applesoft amp Integer FIRMWARE CARDS IN SLOT lems with GREETING NAME Change without re init 1 GREETING PROGRAM NAME longe without re init 2 IN USE LIGHT Flicker when POWER OFF Apple Program on WAP Risk 014 INTEGER BASI ro INTERRUPTS U sing i INVERSE or FLASHING MODE File fom 5 Bug KEYBOARD In put Wae to Disk with PONE C BOOT GER BASIC Ladi in DOS 3 3 LOADING Errors from Disk LOADING pm wiin a Prog w out Loosing Original Program PRE BOOT What PRE BOOT What does it do where can I read more AMMER S AID rams on DOS 3 3 BASICS Disk ile with Different Format EAD CESS FILE incompletely w END OF DATA READ Problems aS Storing TEXT Files RELOAD LONG NEW PROG from Disk after Saving RELOCATE DOS Disk 101 RENUMBER Problems with DOS 3 3 SYS MASTER PROGRAM RESET Defeat REBOOT on RESET for DOS 3 1 RESTORE damaged tracks without affecting others SAVE Check for Same Name Before Saving SAVE Syntax Error from 80 Column Mode SUPERCOPY Bu BS TOOLKIT amp X Problems with DATA Statements TRACE Command ON and Use DISK VO TRACK SECTOR Set up on Disks
247. uch to see so little time Pester your dealer Come to the October 26 meeting October 1985 75 APPLE BEGINNERS TUTORIALS by Bruce F Field Our series of monthly tutorials for beginners will be changing starting in October We are emphasizing basic skills with the computer and will not include any program ming Additional tutorials in BASIC language programming will be held three or four times a year and will be announced shortly Our monthly beginners tutorials are held on Tuesday evenings at the office from 7 30 to 9 00 pm If you bring your computer please arrive 15 minutes early to allow for setup The cost is 10 per tutorial if you bring a computer 15 without The first tutorial is designed to familiarize you with com mon computer terms and help you feel comfortable with your Apple If you bring your computer please bring your New Members disk to this session Session 2 will help you explore the utility programs that came with your computer Please bring the Master diskette that came with your computer or a copy of it and a blank disk Recent purchasers will have received a ProDOS Utilites Diskette earlier purchasers will have a DOS 3 3 System Master Diskette Session 3 will demonstrate four popular applications for Apple computers and help you get started using them AppleWorks will be used for part of the demonstration If you have a copy please bring it however the session will be useful for anyone contemplat
248. uite 220 Clayton MO 63105 I will publish an updated address and phone number once it becomes available I also recently spoke on the phone with Marlys Christensen who with her husband Mike is the co owner of Donovan s Reef They have taken over publication of the only Apple magazine offered on disk It s called Cheers So far only two editions have come out The magazine was originally published in the summer of 1984 by the Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange Donovan s Reef has since taken it over and re released the first edition A second has also come out A P P L E still is acting as the distributor but has provided little actual support Ms Christensen says the biggest problem so far has been getting material to put into the magazine Like others the Christensens are doing this project on the side with little time or money for advertising etc She says there are only about 85 subscribers so far Authors are paid on a royalty basis It costs 40 00 per year published quarterly I ve gotten the first two editions and find the graphics articles etc all to be excellent For the price you get three disks a boot disk a Cheers disk and an articles disk The magazine also sports accessories that include a calculator and other goodies It holds great promise if it can really get off the ground Most users know about On Three It s published by Bob Consorti out of Ventura California Current cost is 40 00 per year
249. ume 406 ZCPR2 Install Volume 407 ZCPR2 Documentation Volume 408 ZCPR2 Utilities 8 Volume 155 IAC 33 Miscellaneous Volume 106 Science Engineering Volume 107 Games B Volume 108 IAC 10 Graphics Volume 111 Games C Volume 112 Utilities C Volume 113 Business B Volume 115 IAC 12 13 Misc Volume 116 IAC 14 MicromodemII Volume 117 Picture Packer Volume 118 Utilities D Volume 119 IAC 15 Misc Volume 120 IAC 16 Misc Volume 121 WAPABBS 1 1 Doc Volume 122 IAC 17 Misc Volume 123 French Vocabulary Volume 124 Utilities E Volume 125 IAC 18 Misc Volume 126 Sights and Sounds Volume 127 Math Science Volume 128 Games 0 Volume 129 GLAQ Volume 130 Diversi DOS Volume 131 Personal Educ 2 Volume 132 IAC 19 Utilities F Volume 133 IAC 20 Pascal amp 005 3 3 Volume 134 New Members Disk Volume 135 WAPABBS 1 1 Disk 1 Volume 136 WAPABBS 1 1 Disk 2 Volume 137 IAC 21 Spreadsheet A Volume 138 IAC 23 Utilities G Volume 139 IAC 24 Education 3 Volume 140 Education 4 Volume 141 Special Data Bases Volume 110 Personal Education Volume 181 required with these disks Use of this disk requires sending money NOTE ALLOW 3 TO 4 WEEKS FOR MAILING NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP TELEPHONE Washi
250. urchased from the same companies generally for about 4 5 for a 2716 and 4 9 for a 2732A Access time of the EPROMs should be rated at 450 nano seconds or less Thanks for sharing your information with us Larry I have had a couple of people write to provide a better answer to a question on consolidating spreadsheets using Appleworks My original answer said it wasn t possible for which I apologize I have never used Appleworks and got my information second hand from a couple of people However Dr George LaCroix has written with a very complete answer I noted in your column your answer regarding consolidating several spreadsheets into one using Appleworks While your answer is correct you cannot consolidate several spreadsheets into one automatically but there is a way of mov ing spreadsheets from one file into another spreadsheet file I have used the following technique on occasion when I wish to cross reference related spreadsheets in the same file Simply the technique is to set the spreadsheets for manual calculation copy them to the clipboard and then copy them to the spread sheet file that I wish to consolidate If the column widths are the same in both spreadsheets you can copy directly beneath the first spreadsheet thus having the two close to each other for viewing If however you wish to have the freedom of altering the number of rows or columns then what I do with the spreadsheet to be moved is to insert a number of c
251. urself a Fonts Disk which contains all the separate files To make it easier to find the one you want later on choose by Name from the View menu on your desktop Mac will automatically display your font files alphabetically by name This is a tedious task especially with a single drive 128K Macintosh system But as with so many Macintosh tasks it s one you ll rarely have to repeat Occasionally as you acquire new fonts you ll create new files for them Or you ll copy them into existing files But you ll probably never face another fat fonts file like Apple s which needs breaking up The advantage of breaking up the fat file is this Suppose Washington Apple Pi Athens Boise Broadway Cairo Camelot Carmel Chicago Geneva London New York Monaco Taliesin you want to create a MacPaint document with a large size font headline On a single drive system you ve already got on your disk the MacPaint program your System Folder and your document There s hardly enough space left for a very big or fancy document So you d never have space to move the entire fat fonts file onto that disk for the purpose of simply creating one headline With your individualized font files you probably do have room on the disk for just that one headline size font file You can copy it onto the disk install it into the System File and throw it away all without having Mac inform you that This disk is almost full W
252. us have s three of us have 512K five of us have 128K one of us doesn t know The majority of course have straight Apple s with 256K memory Monitor s and Apple Floppy Drives Only four of us mention having color monitors only one plotter HP 2 pen The exact type and location of equipment each has will be compiled on a new roster for all to share The question Do you do your own programming for business or hobby had some humorous results Fifteen of us chose not to answer that question at all You knew I was secretly combining this information with the other trick question Do you have software you created you can share Nine said yes seven said a little five said some one said not much and one said used to Why aren t you at the tutorials Another confusing question on the survey was about communication I got answers from Catalyst to Access to modems I ll get it straight Nearly all of us have Business Basic and Pascal Packages I called them compilers and I think that confused some people I got little response about accounting software because there wasn t any space reserved for it and some of you were kind enough to fill me in under other The survey revealed that there is an interest in graphics Numerous mentions of graphics tutorials or meeting topics looking to buy graphics software or wanting to do special things with graphics Now that we know what you want we il see what we can
253. ut no Thunderscan When I called the person was unable to tell me if they had shipped it but promised to call me back No one did the second call the person told me that there was a 3 week delay and the first person should not have told me it was to be shipped the next day Three weeks after the original order it ir amive Exercise caution in believing sales people Bruce Fie From WP3544 To ALL Harmony in Brooklyn appears t have lowest prices on a number of items Shiba 1340 printer 515 Panasonic 1093 409 Apple with single drive 780 Amdek 300 monitor 107 Has anybody had any experience with them are they reliable And if indeed these are lowest prices in country should they not be target for WAP group buying program From WP5963 ALL 07 26 Kyan Pascal I m looking for a Pascal compiler and would like to know if Kyan Pascal would be suitable for Apple Any comments or with Apple Pascal would be appreciated Don From WP1095 To WP5963 07 26 Get Turbo With CP M cards going for 100 or less it would be advisable to look very seriously at Turbo Pascal It certainly has Apple Pascal beat hands down and it s hard to believe that a better Pascal is on the market without the word a tting out pretty fast Turbo is I think more of a standard now than any other version since it is also sold for MS PC DOS From WAP208 To WP5963 07 27 Pascal Compiler If you need a good Pascal complier and have
254. ution That to me was unacceptable On a or with an external keyboard the problem does not appear since the shift key modification is not necessary 2 MICROPRO S FAULTY CODE One of the beauties of CP M is that because there is no copy protection it is possible to examine and modify programs Several hours of research led me to the source of the problem In order to make the WordStar program functional with the many different brands and flavors of Apple CP M the keyboard patch was placed not in the operating system part of memory but right within the uninstalled WSU COM program code Location Code Description mine not MicroPro s 4885 CPI 40 Compare with 4887 JRZ 3 continue Yes goto 488C 4889 CPI SE Compare with 4888 2 No then Return 488C 10 Exclusive OR with 10 40 becomes 50 SE becomes 4E 488E RET Retum Three things are apparent 1 This is indeed the shift key patch it takes care of the caret put out by shift N and the put out by shift P 2 Somehow MicroPro managed to take care of those 40 October 1985 two characters but forgot about the shift M 3 There is not enough room in the code between 4885 and 488E to accomodate a patch for all three problem char acters at least not for a brute force programmer like 3 A SOLUTION My solution to this dilemma was to replace the MicroPro patch with a subroutine CALL to a patch outside the program
255. vers some example code is contained on PIGO which does not appear in the Workbench manual As mentioned in the January 1985 WAP Journal there was a bug in the PascalZap program on PIG4 which pre vented patching in values between 01 and OF That bug has been corrected on the PIG4 reissue The new release of PIG2 contains a different version of Tom Woteki s MiniFiler program The program is now UNIT which can be called by your own programs and it also will run under Pascal 1 2 or 1 1 To use the program under 1 1 you must change the value of the CONSTant maxunit in Filer Text from 20 to 12 as documented in the program In order to update MiniFiler for version 1 2 I traced through the 1 2 System Global variables It appears to me that the only difference between the 1 1 and 1 2 Globals up to the Unit Table is the growth of that table by 8 entries and an offset in the Globals starting address which is different for the 64K and 128K systems of 1 2 Thus most programs which use absolute addresses under 1 1 to access System Global variables can be made to run under 1 2 by adding an offset to the addresses For an excellent method of locating the starting address of the Globals see the FUNCTION FindGlobals written by John Stokes which is used in the new version of MiniFiler Lastly John Stokes provided a version of his NewRoot program on PIG11 which works with both Pascal 1 1 and 1 2 This originally appeared in the WAP book Perfect
256. was definitely a good idea And Ultima sophisticated graphics provide a depth and immediacy of experience that was altogether lacking in early computer adventures which relied rather heavily on the player s visual imagination You are in a maze of twisty little passages all different There is however a sense in which the player of this breed of real time fantasy becomes just another element in the world building scheme of the programmer Out of what I suppose is a kind of cybernetic necessity Ultima is designed for a certain series of events to occur and it is the mission of the player to discover what those events are and take steps to bring them about There is a certain scope for creativity in causing the fore ordained outcome to occur but generally speaking this kind of game and I m sure Ultima III is not unique in this regard is not so much an adventure as a problem The player s task is to guess what the programmer had in mind You may to choose a trivial example think that mount or ride or lasso or feed is the appropriate thing to do to an ill gotten horse But unless you understand that the programmer was thinking of board chiefly because he had already incorporated that command into the game in the context of what to do with a frigate you and the animal can stand their whinnying at each other until your food runs out or guards arrive Let me now address a couple of remarks specifically to players of
257. we can use during the next month or two to make a short tape of WAP meetings to show at the Expo IS IT MY TURN YET by Jeff Peterson For years I pined for a computer I had wanted one for the longest time especially for those 1 000 pages worth of term papers I had to type and retype and retype while I was in seminary But as with most paupers who have chosen education over income I had no money Finally in May of 1984 upon my graduation from seminary I received as a gift money to put towards my heart s desire But it was not quite enough So for the next several months I did research research research weighing the pros and cons of this brand vs that brand the c vs the Mac All I did was talk talk talk computers In short I drove my wife nuts I would go through all the arguments with her over and over again And she really didn t give a hoot She just didn t understand computer mania To her it was just a needless expense especially for someone who didn t even have a job Though I desired a Mac it was a little out of my reach financially and besides here comes parental guilt I really ought to get something the whole family can use I mean the Mac had educational software at all and promised to have none in the near future And my oldest son ought to be able to have the advantage of a computer so he can get ahead and go to college and all that It would be really selfish of me to get a computer just
258. works with the Epson all we have to do is find the print statement that prints the special condensed command to the Epson and change it to the one for the Imagewriter The command for the Epson is CHR 15 Somewhere in the program is a statement like PRINT CHR 15 which sends the command to the printer It may be part of another statement or part of an IF statement like IF A s Y THEN PRINT CHR 15 You must change the CHR 15 to CHR 27 CHR 81 1f you look on the Imagewriter Reference card in the back of your Imagewriter User s Manual you will see the codes needed to control the printer under the heading General Control Codes If you are using an Applesoft program look at the column labelled Decimal and use those numbers with the CHR function as Tve done above Horizontal tabs and double line spacing are usually con trolled by the printer interface card plugged into your Apple or the printer itself If the program contains statements such as PRINT TAB 13 these should work correctly When using a BASIC program extra line feeds can be generated because the interface card is set to produce a line feed every time it sends out a carriage return AND the printer is set to produce a line contd on pg 47 October 1985 23 WAP Q amp A INDEX by Paul Koskos INTRODUCTION In the spring of 1983 Dave Morganstein asked for volunteers to do some indexing of the WAP Journal and after some discussion this author undertook to compile an i
259. writer amp Colormate Software Macintosh Services LaserCopies An alternative to typesetting Digitizing amp Peripheral Rentals Macintizer ThunderScan Mouse Stick PC Resources Appointments amp Messages 860 9600 Reston Copy Center 11800 Sunrise Valley Dr Reston VA 22091 Mall in service add 5 for postage and handling Price ir to change without notice Appointments required Clients responsible for disk back up VA sales tax 4 850907 October 1985 65 99 5861 2990120 Id addy uoidursea Listing 1 Unit FilePack MacAdvantage version of OldFileName RC Platt June 3 1985 See page 9 26 of MacPascal Manual page 13 of Packages section of Inside Macintosh page A 49 of MacAdvantage Manual interface type str255 string 255 Procedure NewFileName prompt str255 defaultNm str255 VAR result str255 dialog box for saving new files Procedure OldFileName VAR result str255 dialog box for existing files Procedure PageClr like page output implementation following declarations are hidden from user type LonglInt integer2 Handle integer2 Point Record case integer of 0 v integer h integer 1 vh array 0 1 of integer 2 param LongiInt end Rect record topLeft Point botRight Point end FPoint LongInt StringPtr integer2 ProcPtr integer2 MacPtr integer2 PuSFReply MacPtr SmallBool 0 255 OSType Record ca
260. xperiments with various equipment Kepner Terry BUILD YOUR OWN NULL MODEM Sep 83 Portable 100 p 38 Kinal George and Tom Gross TRANSFER OF COMMODORE 64 PROGRAMS TO APPLESOFT Apr 85 Washington Apple Pi p 22 Principles apply to Model 100 as well Kisor Henry OSBORNE AND WORDSTAR MEET THE 100 Apr 84 Portable 100 pp 46 51 BASIC program for Model 100 to transfer Wordstar text via RS 232 ports with line feeds and carriage returns kept Ross Richard Jr THE MODEL 100 MEETS THE BIG BLUE MACHINE Aug 84 Portable 100 pp 42 46 Recommends communications for IBM PC be set at 2400 no parity 8 data bits and 1 stop bit Figure 1 THE QUICK AND DIRTY CABLE INTERFACE CABLE DB 25 USUALLY MALE DB 25 Dee ee ee October 1985 35 THE ENA VISION What Is ENA Compiled and Edited by Mike Ungerman Adapted from NETWEAVER Volume 1 Number 1 c Electronic Networking Association The Electronic Networking Association ENA is an organization that grew out of the First Intersystem Sympos ium conducted by Lisa Carlson a Washington DC resident during which Lisa took ported comments from one electronic network to the other until finally people from many places began to feel they knew each other In April 1985 50 of those people representing MANY networks came from all over the country to meet in NYC And ENA was born Since then although the organization offici
261. y Margaret Dexter Advanced System Editor Macros by Arley Dealey one of ASE s authors A Modula 2 Console Operations Module by David Rhoads Moral and Ethical Issues of Artificial Intelligence by Chris Cherniak Workshops Mac Advantage UCSD Pascal on the Macintosh by Dave Neumann and Robert Platt Writing Communications Software by Craig Vaughan author of ABBS and MAGUS Apple Attach and Device Drivers by Michael Hartman Tutorials Advanced Topics in UCSD Pascal by Tom Woteki aka Dr Wo Introduction to the UCSD Pascal Language by Jon Bondy Introduction to Modula 2 by Jon Bondy Another highlight will be talk by Eli Willner on The Future of the p System As some of you may know Sof Tech Microsystems the vendor of the UCSD Pascal products for the Macintosh and other machines was put up for sale in June By the time you read this a group headed by Eli should have signed a final agreement to acquire all of the assets of SMS Expect several announcements that will increase the 48 October 1985 viability and importance of UCSD Pascal in the micro computer marketplace Meeting registration for all three days is 25 in advance or 35 at the door One day registration is 18 in advance or at the door Student rates are 20 for three days and 10 for one day in advance or at the door Students must show a current school ID to obtain the special rates To register in advance mail a check for the appropr
262. y eye It was impossible to cover the entire exhibit thoroughly in three days particularly when there were so many interesting people to talk to and interesting demonstrations to watch There was software on the lighter side although to see a Ron Wartow GAMESIG demo it might be hazardous to so characterize them PBI Software had an interesting strategy game called Strategic Conquest an electronic version of the Avalon Hill war board games Claiming to offer two billion board configurations it should keep the dedicated wargamer happy for a while PBI also showed an interested biplane flight simulator which according to Product Manager Donna Benzola has just been released but I did not get a chance to see it in any detail Also Silicon Beach was there in force and Hawaiian shirts reportedly not let into the General Computer party because of the attire and probably no invitation They had a new dungeons and dragons type game just about to be released The interaction graphics and digitized sound carry Macgames to a new level They let us peek at a fascinating world builder It lets you cut and paste scenes between pames and then edit both the action from dialogue boxes and the graphics with a fascinating 60 October 1985 by James M Burger gt MacPaint MacDraw type tool SB doesnt have any immediate plans to release the program They probably want to sell some games first before they let the rest of us become game world
263. yself from any responsibility here ProCmd is available from the author Glen E Bredon 521 State Road Princeton NJ 08540 for 20 However I suspect that the original program was written with short lines and then the tokenized program compressed to create long lines If ProCmd doesn t work I think you are on the right track by listing the program to a text file and editing it with Apple Writer II Before you can exec it back though you must shorten all the long lines Each line must be less than 242 244 something like that I can t remember exactly bytes long Each BASIC keyword takes one byte and each character or space takes a byte Remove the colon separating the statements and insert a carriage return and a new consecutive line number in the Washington Apple Pi middle of the long line to break it into acceptably shorter parts You must watch out for IF statements if the IF equates true then all the statements on the line after the THEN are executed otherwise the first statement on the next line is executed You may need to add some GOTOs if you break up IF statements This can be tedious to do by hand Except for JF statments it is fairly easy to write an Applesoft program to scan a text file and break lines at colons when they are over a certain length Good luck Q I am converting a number of VisiCalc files to SuperCalc 3 and have to convert them from DOS 3 3 to ProDOS The problem is that VisiCalc allows you to save s

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